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 -51,165 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus -50,542 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series extends from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at a few statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had an average value of -97,122 contracts; they hit a trough of -223,009 on 22 June 2010; they reached a maximum of 12,295 on 3 December 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | -54481.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | -50542.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | -51165.0 |
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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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