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 46,364 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 64,792 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 698 observations in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The time range covered by the series extends from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a trough of 1,652 contracts on 6 October 2015; they attained a maximum of 125,746 on 6 May 2014; they averaged 33,015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 53597.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 64792.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 46364.0 |
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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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