COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by leveraged money managers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 31,369 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 37,302 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 698 data points overall. The time span covered by the series goes from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions hit a peak of 127,689 contracts on 22 April 2014; they reached their lowest level of -90,282 on 1 November 2016; they averaged 10,939.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 26049.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 37302.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 31369.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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