COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers in CHF/USD FX futures: SWISS FRANC - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: CHF/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 CHF/USD FX futures of the kind "SWISS FRANC - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 44,071 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 42,831 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 711 records. The span of time covered by the series goes from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 14,986 contracts; they hit a peak of 62,015 on 20 January 2026; they reached their lowest level of 885 on 8 November 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 44338.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 42831.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 44071.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers in futures on the CHF/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: SWISS FRANC - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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