COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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 leveraged money managers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 36,910 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 32,877 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 698 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the period stretching from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at some statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached their lowest level of 19,069 contracts on 15 June 2021; they reached their maximum of 130,173 on 1 November 2016; they were equal on average to 46,804.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 37064.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 32877.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 36910.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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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