COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by dealers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 133,730 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 123,799 on 11 August.
Sample. In the weekly series shown in the figure, there are 711 records overall. The time period covered by the series is from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their minimum of 0 contracts on 22 August 2023; they recorded their maximum of 199,736 on 8 March 2016; they averaged 70,418.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 127348.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 123799.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 133730.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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