COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 393,822 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 396,987 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,058 data points. The time range covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions peaked at 765,870 contracts on 14 January 2020; they registered a minimum of 239,255 on 9 December 2008; they were equal on average to 441,059.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 399,760 |
| 2026-09-08 | 396,987 |
| 2026-09-15 | 393,822 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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