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 16,836 contracts on 16 June 2026, versus 22,312 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 702 records. The series covers the span of time stretching from January 2013 to June 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions hit a minimum of -90,282 contracts on 1 November 2016; they recorded their highest level of 127,689 on 22 April 2014; they had a mean value of 11,012.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 27353.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 22312.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 16836.0 |
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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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