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." stood at 9,278 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 10,832 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 1,058 observations in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the span of time extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their highest level of 197,171 contracts on 21 August 2018; they hit a minimum of 1,556 on 24 March 2020; they had an average value of 40,570.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 12,950.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 10,832.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 9,278.00 |
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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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