CFTC Commitments: Comex Gold Futures - Aug 21

GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. 
FUTURES ONLY POSITIONS AS OF 08/18/26                         | 
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE 
      NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS 
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------- 
  LONG  | SHORT  |SPREADS |  LONG  | SHORT  |  LONG  | SHORT  |  LONG  | SHORT 
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(CONTRACTS OF 100 TROY OUNCES)                       OPEN INTEREST:      406,260 
COMMITMENTS 
 256,902   34,713   28,961   69,050  327,468  354,913  391,142   51,347   15,118 
 
CHANGES FROM 08/11/26 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:      5,951) 
   5,966    1,717       24     -335    5,443    5,655    7,184      296   -1,233 
 
PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS 
    63.2      8.5      7.1     17.0     80.6     87.4     96.3     12.6      3.7 
 
NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      292) 
     172       52       75       51       51      253      149 
 
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