COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by dealers in CAD/USD FX futures of the kind "CANADIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 65,801 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 66,178 on 22 September.
Sample. In the weekly time series shown in the chart, there are 717 records overall. The span of time covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions reached a trough of 0 contracts on 7 May 2019; they reached their maximum of 135,851 on 1 June 2021; they had a mean of 33,807.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 104189.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 66178.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 65801.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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