COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other 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), compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 14,966 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 13,801 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,058 data points in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The time period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 20,045 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 50,291 on 31 December 2019; they reached their lowest level of 8,381 on 6 June 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 13,967.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 13,801.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 14,966.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other 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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