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 461,235 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 427,998 on 6 January.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,023 records overall. The time range covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 417,532 contracts; they hit a maximum of 735,286 on 14 January 2020; they reached a trough of 227,538 on 9 December 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 421649.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 427998.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 461235.0 |
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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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