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 28,643 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 24,705 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 163 records overall in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The time period covered by the series goes from December 2020 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 20,152 contracts; they peaked at 40,390 on 2 September 2025; they recorded a minimum of 5,346 on 10 May 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 23,299.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 24,705.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 28,643.0 |
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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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