COT reports: Net long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were -888 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to -464 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 records overall in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The time period covered by the series goes from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged -4,607 contracts; they reached a minimum of -35,089 on 8 July 2014; they hit a maximum of 21,657 on 26 March 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 460.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | -464.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | -888.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by other 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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