COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 65,165 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 42,400 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 711 data points in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time range stretching from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions hit a peak of 125,746 contracts on 6 May 2014; they reached a minimum of 1,652 on 6 October 2015; they had an average value of 33,165.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 35337.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 42400.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 65165.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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