COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in EUR/USD FX futures of the kind "EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 796,573 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 764,943 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached a maximum of 915,426 contracts on 10 March 2026; they registered a minimum of 142,382 on 2 July 2013; they had a mean of 502,779.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 758419.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 764943.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 796573.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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