COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 65,163 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 63,996 on 6 January.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,023 records in total. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics computed on the entire sample: positions recorded a maximum of 290,583 contracts on 6 September 2011; they hit a trough of 26,028 on 1 November 2022; they had a mean value of 134,315.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 67439.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 63996.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 65163.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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