COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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), long positions held by swap dealers in gold futures of the kind "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 4,022 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 2,989 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 130 records overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The span of time covered by the series extends from December 2020 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 284 contracts; they reached a maximum of 4,022 on 27 January 2026; they recorded a minimum of 0 on 23 November 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 2850.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 2989.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 4022.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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