COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 48,947 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 50,263 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 records overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The time range covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a maximum of 138,816 contracts on 6 November 2007; they reached a trough of 949 on 2 August 2011; they were equal on average to 34,748.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 44374.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 50263.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 48947.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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