COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 14,609 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 18,731 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 1,025 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a trough of 8,209 contracts on 2 September 2025; they attained a maximum of 112,727 on 16 July 2013; they had a mean value of 37,154.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 13998.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 18731.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 14609.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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