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" stood at 82,953 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 82,489 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 685 records in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time range stretching from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a trough of 32,919 contracts on 8 October 2013; they achieved a maximum of 205,053 on 25 October 2016; they had an average value of 94,628.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 81712.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 82489.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 82953.0 |
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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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