COT reports: Long positions held by dealers in CAD/USD FX futures: CANADIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: CAD/USD exchange rate 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), long positions held by dealers in CAD/USD FX futures of the kind "CANADIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 219,783 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 228,200 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 711 data points in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series goes from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded a bottom of 0 contracts on 5 July 2016; they recorded a maximum of 262,725 on 17 December 2024; they had a mean of 53,314.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 231493.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 228200.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 219783.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by dealers in futures on the CAD/USD exchange rate |
| 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: CANADIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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