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 258,391 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 227,783 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 711 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The time period covered by the series goes from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded a maximum of 362,598 contracts on 10 March 2026; they recorded a minimum of 97,875 on 25 June 2013; they averaged 179,683.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 218095.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 227783.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 258391.0 |
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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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