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 4,083 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 5,819 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 711 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a peak of 38,703 contracts on 10 March 2026; they reached their minimum of 237 on 14 September 2021; they averaged 7,190.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 5408.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 5819.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 4083.0 |
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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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