COT reports: Long positions held by non-reporting traders 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), long positions held by non-reporting traders in EUR/USD FX futures of the kind "EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 86,082 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 87,878 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 698 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time period extending from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions recorded a bottom of 29,840 contracts on 16 September 2014; they recorded their maximum of 240,921 on 16 December 2025; they averaged 72,449.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 88156.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 87878.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 86082.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by non-reporting traders 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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