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" were 53,713 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 65,094 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 717 records in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the period extending from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions registered a minimum of 18,732 contracts on 23 July 2013; they hit a maximum of 176,813 on 1 July 2014; they had a mean of 57,913.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 63991.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 65094.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 53713.0 |
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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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