COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by leveraged money managers 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 leveraged money managers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 1,587 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 2,459 on 22 September.
Sample. In the weekly time series displayed in the graph, there are 717 records in total. The time span covered by the series goes from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded their maximum of 38,703 contracts on 10 March 2026; they reached their minimum of 237 on 14 September 2021; they had an average value of 7,166.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 3325.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 2459.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 1587.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by leveraged money managers 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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