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 507,103 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 472,401 on 6 January.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,023 observations overall. The series covers the time span extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a minimum of 239,255 contracts on 9 December 2008; they peaked at 765,870 on 14 January 2020; they had a mean of 443,330.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 465722.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 472401.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 507103.0 |
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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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