COT reports: Net long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were -233,660 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus -239,313 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 1,058 data points overall in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The time range covered by the series goes from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of -95,493 contracts; they registered a minimum of -264,731 on 4 February 2025; they peaked at 59,999 on 9 October 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | -233,429 |
| 2026-09-08 | -239,313 |
| 2026-09-15 | -233,660 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by swap dealers 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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