COT reports: Net long positions held by asset 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), net long positions held by asset managers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were -117,240 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to -119,863 on 11 August.
Sample. This weekly time series has 711 observations overall. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their highest level of 47,747 contracts on 18 July 2023; they hit a trough of -156,307 on 30 June 2026; they averaged -39,770.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | -125814.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | -119863.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | -117240.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by asset 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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