COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 20,352 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 15,715 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the span of time extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a maximum of 47,445 contracts on 4 August 2015; they hit a minimum of 9,905 on 25 July 2006; they had a mean of 25,744.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 16144.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 15715.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 20352.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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