COT reports: Net long positions held by non-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), net long positions held by non-reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 42,889 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 44,919 on 20 January.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,025 data points. The series covers the time span stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of -15,080 contracts on 4 August 2015; they reached their highest level of 60,944 on 2 October 2012; they were equal on average to 25,834.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 45868.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 44919.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 42889.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by non-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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