COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 29,431 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 28,610 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 698 data points. The time period covered by the series extends from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions hit a maximum of 111,695 contracts on 16 December 2025; they reached a trough of 17,706 on 25 March 2014; they had a mean value of 30,840.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 27336.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 28610.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 29431.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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