COT reports: Net long positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 116,493 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 104,419 on 6 January.
Sample. The weekly series plotted above has 1,023 records. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a maximum of 174,771 contracts on 1 December 2020; they recorded a bottom of -23,663 on 30 July 2013; they had a mean of 56,644.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 105133.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 104419.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 116493.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by other reporting traders 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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