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 0 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 566 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 698 records overall in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean of -4,743 contracts; they reached a maximum of 21,657 on 26 March 2013; they reached a minimum of -35,089 on 8 July 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 0.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 566.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 0.0 |
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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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