COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 24,080 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 23,232 on 6 January.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,023 data points. The time range covered by the series extends from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions hit a minimum of 1,556 contracts on 24 March 2020; they achieved a maximum of 197,171 on 21 August 2018; they were equal on average to 41,213.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 22602.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 23232.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 24080.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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