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 32,723 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 23,082 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly series shown in the figure has 1,023 data points overall. The series covers the period stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out some summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 20,248 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 8,381 on 6 June 2023; they hit a maximum of 50,291 on 31 December 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 19429.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 23082.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 32723.0 |
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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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