COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by producers and merchants in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were -40,589 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus -42,289 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 1,025 data points overall in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the span of time extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached a trough of -223,009 contracts on 22 June 2010; they hit a peak of 12,295 on 3 December 2013; they had a mean of -97,013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | -51165.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | -42289.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | -40589.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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