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" were 772,959 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 780,353 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 698 data points overall in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The series covers the time span extending from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded their maximum of 915,426 contracts on 10 March 2026; they reached their lowest level of 142,382 on 2 July 2013; they had a mean value of 495,625.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 768963.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 780353.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 772959.0 |
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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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