COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 362,439 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 358,673 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,058 records overall. The series covers the period going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions registered a minimum of 227,538 contracts on 9 December 2008; they hit a peak of 735,286 on 14 January 2020; they averaged 414,960.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 363,166 |
| 2026-09-08 | 358,673 |
| 2026-09-15 | 362,439 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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