COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers 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 asset managers in EUR/USD FX futures of the kind "EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 189,678 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 180,754 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. There are 702 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time period extending from January 2013 to June 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 111,733 contracts; they attained a maximum of 198,846 on 30 August 2022; they recorded a bottom of 30,356 on 19 February 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 168157.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 180754.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 189678.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers 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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