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 104,854 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 97,833 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 698 data points in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series extends from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics calculated on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 94,731 contracts; they reached their maximum of 205,053 on 25 October 2016; they reached a minimum of 32,919 on 8 October 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 99013.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 97833.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 104854.0 |
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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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