COT reports: Long positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 66,220 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 60,118 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 data points in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions hit a trough of 30,624 contracts on 11 November 2008; they hit a peak of 81,814 on 6 October 2009; they had a mean of 51,543.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 60217.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 60118.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 66220.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by non-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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