COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 277,107 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 258,949 on 6 January.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the graph has 1,023 observations in total. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had an average value of 156,280 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 344,870 on 31 December 2019; they reached a trough of 35,604 on 15 December 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 257775.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 258949.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 277107.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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