COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in gold futures of the kind "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 0 contracts on 13 January 2026, the same as on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 128 data points in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the period stretching from December 2020 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 14 contracts; they registered a minimum of 0 on 29 December 2020; they reached their highest level of 398 on 2 May 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 0.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 0.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 0.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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