COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 468,675 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 510,787 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,025 data points in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The time range covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 443,421 contracts; they hit a trough of 239,255 on 9 December 2008; they achieved a maximum of 765,870 on 14 January 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 507103.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 510787.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 468675.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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