COT reports: Net long positions held by dealers 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 dealers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 104,972 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 99,001 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series displayed in the figure, there are a total of 702 records. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2013 to June 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 36,306 contracts; they recorded a bottom of -118,094 on 6 May 2014; they hit a peak of 195,814 on 8 March 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 82480.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 99001.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 104972.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by dealers 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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