COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 38,218 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 29,308 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 records overall in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions hit a trough of 2,910 contracts on 3 October 2006; they reached their maximum of 82,688 on 21 July 2015; they had an average value of 27,076.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 32286.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 29308.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 38218.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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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