COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 25,162 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 26,224 on 20 January.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,025 observations. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions achieved a maximum of 197,171 contracts on 21 August 2018; they hit a trough of 1,556 on 24 March 2020; they averaged 41,183.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 24080.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 26224.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 25162.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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