COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by dealers in GBP/USD FX futures: BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: GBP/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), compensated (spread) positions held by dealers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 578 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 327 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 691 records overall in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The time range covered by the series is from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 3,404 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 6 October 2015; they reached a maximum of 126,784 on 10 March 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 2275.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 327.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 578.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by dealers in futures on the GBP/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: BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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