COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in EUR/USD FX futures of the kind "EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 16,471 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 17,642 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 698 observations in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The time range covered by the series extends from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 19,779 contracts; they peaked at 79,858 on 27 June 2017; they hit a minimum of 2,648 on 30 March 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 18444.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 17642.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 16471.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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