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 147,856 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 147,353 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series presented in the figure has 711 records overall. The span of time covered by the series is from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at some statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 95,386 contracts; they hit a minimum of 32,919 on 8 October 2013; they reached their highest level of 205,053 on 25 October 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 147594.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 147353.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 147856.0 |
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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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