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 18,443 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 18,215 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,058 data points overall in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The time range covered by the series goes from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions peaked at 79,836 contracts on 12 September 2017; they hit a minimum of 3,663 on 31 October 2006; they were equal on average to 29,173.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 19,411.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 18,215.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 18,443.0 |
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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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