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 -245,941 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus -221,493 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions peaked at 59,999 contracts on 9 October 2018; they hit a trough of -264,731 on 4 February 2025; they had a mean of -92,056.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | -220765.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | -221493.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | -245941.0 |
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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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