COT reports: Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were -28,061 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus -30,961 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 1,058 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The time span covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their highest level of 12,295 contracts on 3 December 2013; they registered a minimum of -223,009 on 22 June 2010; they had a mean of -94,653.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | -31,289.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | -30,961.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | -28,061.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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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