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 1,578 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 460 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 711 observations in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The series covers the span of time going from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions recorded their maximum of 32,065 contracts on 2 April 2013; they hit a trough of 0 on 24 September 2019; they had a mean of 4,737.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 460.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 460.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 1578.0 |
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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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