COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in gold futures of the kind "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 101,490 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 98,428 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 165 records in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series goes from December 2020 to September 2026.
History. Take a look at a few statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 48,064 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 23,780 on 25 April 2023; they reached their maximum of 101,490 on 29 September 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 90365.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 98428.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 101490.0 |
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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: "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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