GoldSeek Publishes Weekly COT Report for Gold, Silver and U.S. Dollar Index (August 21, 2026)
Key Takeaways
- •The report was published by GoldSeek and is dated August 21, 2026.
- •It covers positioning in gold, silver, and the U.S. Dollar Index futures markets.
- •COT data is released weekly by the CFTC and reflects positions held as of the prior Tuesday.
- •The report groups traders into commercial, non-commercial, and non-reportable categories.
- •The series is designed to show how long and short exposure shifts over time across the three markets.
GoldSeek has published its weekly Commitments of Traders (COT) report covering gold, silver, and the U.S. Dollar Index (USDX), dated August 21, 2026. The article is part of the precious-metals news site's recurring series on futures-market positioning and is available at the original source: COT Gold, Silver & USDX Report - August 21, 2026.
What the COT Report Covers
The Commitments of Traders report is issued weekly by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), normally each Friday at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time, and reflects positions held as of the preceding Tuesday. That reporting lag means the published figures capture where exposure stood mid-week rather than at the moment of release, so each installment reads as a snapshot rather than a real-time tally. It categorizes open futures positions into three main groups:
- Commercial traders — producers, processors, merchants, and banks that primarily use futures to hedge business exposure.
- Non-commercial traders — large speculators such as hedge funds and money managers holding directional positions.
- Non-reportable traders — smaller participants whose positions fall below the CFTC's reporting thresholds.
Gold and silver futures trade principally on the COMEX division of CME Group, while U.S. Dollar Index futures — based on a measure of the dollar's value against a basket of major currencies — trade on ICE Futures U.S. Market observers follow the weekly COT figures as a descriptive record of how long and short exposure is distributed across these trader groups, and the GoldSeek series presents the latest readings for gold, silver, and USDX in each installment. Bundling the metals with the dollar index lets readers view all three positioning snapshots side by side, and because the series recurs on the CFTC's weekly Friday schedule, subsequent installments present updated readings on the same cadence for anyone tracking how the distribution of long and short exposure shifts from week to week.
About the Source
The report is published by GoldSeek under its COT Report byline (author page; user profile) and appears alongside the site's broader coverage of the gold, silver, and currency markets.
