COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money 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 leveraged money managers in CHF/USD FX futures of the kind "SWISS FRANC - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 11,739 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 13,097 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 698 observations overall in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time span extending from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached their maximum of 51,266 contracts on 29 May 2018; they reached a minimum of 2,704 on 30 June 2015; they were equal on average to 15,475.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 13023.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 13097.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 11739.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money 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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