COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers in gold futures: MICRO 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 "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 636 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 158 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 128 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The period covered by the series extends from December 2020 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 1,176 contracts; they hit a peak of 6,753 on 9 April 2024; they hit a minimum of -2,845 on 29 August 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 478.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 158.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 636.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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