COT reports: Long positions held by money managers 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 money managers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 158,825 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 146,445 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 records overall in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The time range covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 147,949 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 54,019 on 24 October 2006; they recorded their highest level of 300,070 on 5 July 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 148642.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 146445.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 158825.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by money managers 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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