COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in gold futures: MICRO 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 "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 5,827 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 5,398 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 128 observations in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from December 2020 to January 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions hit a trough of 965 contracts on 29 December 2020; they recorded their maximum of 16,907 on 26 November 2024; they had a mean of 5,732.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 6117.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 5398.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 5827.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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