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" were 0 contracts on 18 August 2026, the same as on 11 August.
Sample. There are 711 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The time span covered by the series extends from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached their lowest level of 0 contracts on 10 March 2026; they reached their highest level of 38,386 on 26 August 2014; they had a mean of 9,387.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 0.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 0.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 0.0 |
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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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