COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 339,330 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 332,709 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,045 data points in total. The time span covered by the series goes from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached a trough of 261,001 contracts on 9 December 2008; they hit a peak of 796,883 on 14 January 2020; they had a mean of 467,415.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 326052.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 332709.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 339330.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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