COT reports: Long positions held by money managers 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), long positions held by money managers in gold futures of the kind "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 636 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 478 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series shown in the figure, there are 128 data points in total. The span of time covered by the series stretches from December 2020 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 1,497 contracts; they hit a trough of 0 on 17 August 2021; they hit a peak of 6,753 on 9 April 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 478.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 478.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 636.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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