COT reports: Net long positions held by non-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), net long positions held by non-reporting traders in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at -9,807 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to -5,112 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 717 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions hit a minimum of -37,699 contracts on 5 March 2013; they reached a maximum of 23,649 on 6 May 2014; they had a mean of -4,048.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 1650.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | -5112.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | -9807.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by non-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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