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 134,745 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 123,213 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 data points in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out some statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 106,735 contracts; they hit a maximum of 273,076 on 5 July 2016; they reached a minimum of -109,454 on 9 October 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 126040.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 123213.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 134745.0 |
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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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