COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in EUR/USD FX futures of the kind "EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 51,410 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 52,079 on 11 August.
Sample. This weekly time series has 711 data points. The span of time covered by the series is from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of 35,125 contracts on 11 May 2021; they reached their maximum of 189,767 on 16 December 2025; they were equal on average to 56,712.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 54324.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 52079.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 51410.0 |
Heads-up. To facilitate exploration, we categorize time series into worksheets and datasets. If you navigate further down, you will find how we arranged further information related to the statistics published here.
Not for investment purposes. Data and any other information released on FetchSeries are not not supposed to be used for investment purposes or any other financial decision. Users should ask for professional advice and perform their own independent due diligence before taking any financial risk.
Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 |
Series in the same data set
Discover the other time series included in this data set.