COT reports: Long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 137,358 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 127,990 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 records in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The time range covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a trough of 35,377 contracts on 25 July 2006; they reached a maximum of 191,676 on 21 December 2020; they had a mean value of 86,092.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 126950.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 127990.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 137358.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other 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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