COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in CAD/USD FX futures: CANADIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: CAD/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 all reporting traders in CAD/USD FX futures of the kind "CANADIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 322,466 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 301,372 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 715 observations overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The period covered by the series is from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions registered a minimum of 43,957 contracts on 23 September 2014; they peaked at 455,195 on 16 June 2026; they averaged 142,673.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 301,313 |
| 2026-09-08 | 301,372 |
| 2026-09-15 | 322,466 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders in futures on the CAD/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: "CANADIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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