COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 1,348 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 924 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series displayed in the figure, there are 717 data points. The series covers the time span going from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 9,313 contracts; they reached a maximum of 38,386 on 26 August 2014; they reached a trough of 0 on 10 March 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 0.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 924.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 1348.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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