COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 26,198 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 25,723 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 128 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The time span covered by the series is from December 2020 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions recorded a minimum of 5,346 contracts on 10 May 2022; they reached their maximum of 40,390 on 2 September 2025; they had a mean value of 19,264.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 22030.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 25723.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 26198.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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