COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 217,437 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 214,610 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series presented in the plot has 717 records in total. The series covers the period extending from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions hit a trough of 97,875 contracts on 25 June 2013; they achieved a maximum of 362,598 on 10 March 2026; they averaged 180,281.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 204125.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 214610.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 217437.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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