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 202,665 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 215,727 on 12 May.
Sample. In the weekly series shown in the graph, there are 1,041 records overall. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 157,367 contracts; they reached their minimum of 35,604 on 15 December 2015; they recorded a maximum of 344,870 on 31 December 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 207142.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 215727.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 202665.0 |
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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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