COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers 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), short positions held by asset managers in CAD/USD FX futures of the kind "CANADIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 123,147 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 118,955 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 data points in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had an average value of 43,039 contracts; they hit a maximum of 189,077 on 31 December 2024; they hit a trough of 2,061 on 15 July 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 96875.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 118955.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 123147.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers 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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