COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by dealers in EUR/USD FX futures of the kind "EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 357,954 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 357,133 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 691 records overall in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The time range covered by the series is from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions recorded a maximum of 586,035 contracts on 10 February 2026; they reached a trough of 5,201 on 16 June 2015; they had a mean of 225,689.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 360018.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 357133.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 357954.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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