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Weekly Gold Positioning
What the big futures traders are doing in gold, in plain English. Positions as of Tuesday September 15, 2026, published by the CFTC on Friday September 18, 2026. Free. This is an archived week: see the latest.
Values as of: real yield 2026-09-18, dollar index 2026-09-18, breakeven 2026-09-18 (each source publishes on its own schedule; each change is against the reading a week before that date).
In plain English
In the CFTC report for Tuesday September 15, 2026, hedge funds and other “managed money” traders held 142,394 long and 9,278 short gold futures contracts on COMEX, a net long position of 133,116 contracts. That is 1,856 contracts lower than the week before (134,972), so these traders trimmed their net long position this week.
Over the last 52 weekly reports this net position has ranged from 89,752 to 160,549 contracts, so the latest reading is in the upper part of that range (the 81st percentile). Open interest, all contracts outstanding, was 409,899.
The 10-year real yield, the yield on inflation-protected Treasuries, was 2.68% on September 18, 2026, 0.08 points higher than a week earlier. Gold pays no interest, so real yields are one of the things traders watch alongside it; the link is loose and changes over time.
The Federal Reserve’s broad US dollar index was 119.5 on September 18, 2026, 1.10% above a week earlier. 10-year breakeven inflation, the inflation rate implied by the gap between ordinary and inflation-protected 10-year Treasury yields (our calculation), was 2.33% on September 18, 2026, 0.03 points lower than a week earlier.
Hedge funds’ net long in gold futures, last 52 weeks
Source: CFTC Commitments of Traders, managed money (hedge funds and similar), COMEX gold. Each point is one weekly report.
10-year real yield, same 52 weeks
Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System via FRED (DFII10), value on or just before each report’s Friday.
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Sources
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Commitments of Traders, Disaggregated Futures Only, gold (COMEX, contract market 088691) – www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/index.htm
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 10-year Treasury inflation-indexed (real) yield, series DFII10, via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis – fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFII10
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 10-year Treasury constant maturity yield, series DGS10, via FRED (used only for our breakeven calculation) – fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DGS10
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Nominal Broad U.S. Dollar Index, series DTWEXBGS, via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis – fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DTWEXBGS
- Breakeven inflation is our own calculation: the 10-year Treasury yield minus the 10-year real yield, same day.
Updated automatically every Friday after the CFTC release (holiday weeks follow the CFTC’s own delay). This page was generated 2026-11-02 17:48 UTC.
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