COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers 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), net long positions held by money managers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 133,116 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 134,972 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 1,058 records overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions peaked at 273,076 contracts on 5 July 2016; they registered a minimum of -109,454 on 9 October 2018; they had an average value of 106,866.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 136,771 |
| 2026-09-08 | 134,972 |
| 2026-09-15 | 133,116 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by money managers 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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