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" were 53,060 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 49,024 on 12 May.
Sample. This weekly time series has 698 observations overall. The time period covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions peaked at 189,767 contracts on 16 December 2025; they hit a trough of 35,125 on 11 May 2021; they had an average value of 56,522.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 46979.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 49024.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 53060.0 |
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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 |
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