COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in gold futures: MICRO 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 "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 46,357 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 43,010 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 128 records in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time period going from December 2020 to January 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their maximum of 71,014 contracts on 18 November 2025; they hit a minimum of 8,154 on 2 May 2023; they were equal on average to 22,935.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 47991.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 43010.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 46357.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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