COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 20,865 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 23,571 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 records in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions hit a peak of 79,836 contracts on 12 September 2017; they recorded a minimum of 3,663 on 31 October 2006; they averaged 29,449.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 21817.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 23571.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 20865.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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