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 406,260 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 400,309 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. The weekly series shown in the plot has 1,054 records. The period covered by the series extends from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions hit a trough of 261,001 contracts on 9 December 2008; they attained a maximum of 796,883 on 14 January 2020; they averaged 466,672.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 371551.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 400309.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 406260.0 |
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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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