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." were 14,690 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 14,542 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,058 observations overall. The span of time covered by the series goes from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged 63,040 contracts; they hit a peak of 126,365 on 5 November 2019; they hit a minimum of 14,542 on 8 September 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 17,798.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 14,542.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 14,690.0 |
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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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