COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers in gold futures: MICRO 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 "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 0 contracts on 18 August 2026, unchanged with respect to 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 159 records in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The time range covered by the series stretches from December 2020 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a minimum of 0 contracts on 13 January 2026; they recorded their maximum of 484 on 21 October 2025; they were equal on average to 5.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 0.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 0.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 0.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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