COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers in gold futures: GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Gold futures COT reports (CFTC)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), short positions held by swap dealers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 244,539 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 250,752 on 22 September.
Sample. The weekly time series plotted above has 1,060 data points in total. The time span covered by the series extends from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions recorded their maximum of 344,870 contracts on 31 December 2019; they registered a minimum of 35,604 on 15 December 2015; they were equal on average to 158,701.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 248350.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 250752.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 244539.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers in gold futures |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | Number of contracts |
| Source | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain information |
| Other information | Specific future: "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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