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 361,409 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 403,925 on 24 March.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the plot has 1,034 data points. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here are a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a trough of 261,001 contracts on 9 December 2008; they reached a maximum of 796,883 on 14 January 2020; they had a mean value of 468,589.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 411388.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 403925.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 361409.0 |
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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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