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 61,722 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 62,746 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the chart, there are 163 data points. The time span covered by the series is from December 2020 to September 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 27,275 contracts; they reached their maximum of 71,014 on 18 November 2025; they reached their lowest level of 8,154 on 2 May 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 60,255.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 62,746.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 61,722.0 |
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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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