COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money 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 leveraged money managers in EUR/USD FX futures of the kind "EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 164,122 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 140,845 on 22 September.
Sample. This weekly series has 717 observations overall. The period covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 95,743 contracts; they hit a peak of 205,053 on 25 October 2016; they hit a trough of 32,919 on 8 October 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 131416.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 140845.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 164122.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money 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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