COT reports: Long positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 460 contracts on 29 September 2026, the same as on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 records in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the span of time extending from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions registered a minimum of 0 contracts on 24 September 2019; they reached their maximum of 32,065 on 2 April 2013; they averaged 4,706.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 460.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 460.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 460.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other reporting traders 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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