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 60,814 contracts on 17 February 2026, versus 60,592 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 133 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The time span covered by the series goes from December 2020 to February 2026.
History. Here are a few statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 43,112 contracts; they reached their minimum of 23,780 on 25 April 2023; they hit a maximum of 84,281 on 18 November 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 53594.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 60592.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 60814.0 |
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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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