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." stood at 16,396 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 16,588 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 1,058 records overall in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions recorded a maximum of 112,727 contracts on 16 July 2013; they recorded a bottom of 8,209 on 2 September 2025; they had an average value of 36,440.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 17,444.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 16,588.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 16,396.0 |
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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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