COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 31,166 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 37,456 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,023 observations. The span of time covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out some summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 64,225 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 14,682 on 25 February 2025; they hit a maximum of 126,365 on 5 November 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 37010.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 37456.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 31166.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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