COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 34,124 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 29,522 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,025 observations in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 64,162 contracts; they reached a maximum of 126,365 on 5 November 2019; they reached a trough of 14,682 on 25 February 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 31166.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 29522.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 34124.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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