COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 13,998 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 13,454 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The period covered by the series extends from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions averaged 37,194 contracts; they reached their highest level of 112,727 on 16 July 2013; they reached a minimum of 8,209 on 2 September 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 12958.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 13454.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 13998.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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