COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by dealers in EUR/USD FX futures: EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: EUR/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), compensated (spread) positions held by dealers in EUR/USD FX futures of the kind "EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 20,973 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 22,627 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 698 data points in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The time range covered by the series is from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 6,283 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 84,734 on 11 December 2018; they reached their minimum of 186 on 13 October 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 22848.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 22627.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 20973.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by dealers in futures on the EUR/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: EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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