COT reports: Long positions held by all reporting traders 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 425,786 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 465,868 on 20 January.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the plot has 1,025 observations in total. The time span covered by the series extends from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 417,587 contracts; they hit a maximum of 735,286 on 14 January 2020; they reached their minimum of 227,538 on 9 December 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 461235.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 465868.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 425786.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all reporting traders 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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