COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by leveraged money managers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 58,402 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 47,450 on 24 March.
Sample. There are 691 data points in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The period covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 57,705 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 18,732 on 23 July 2013; they attained a maximum of 176,813 on 1 July 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 46706.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 47450.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 58402.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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