COT reports: Long positions held by money managers 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 money managers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 143,321 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 163,668 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 1,025 records in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time span stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 147,959 contracts; they hit a trough of 54,019 on 24 October 2006; they reached their highest level of 300,070 on 5 July 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 158825.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 163668.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 143321.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by money managers 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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