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 68,279 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 70,179 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 698 data points in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the time span extending from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 57,743 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 176,813 on 1 July 2014; they recorded a minimum of 18,732 on 23 July 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 63113.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 70179.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 68279.0 |
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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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