COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in CAD/USD FX futures of the kind "CANADIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 3,509 contracts on 14 July 2026, compared to 2,583 on 7 July 2026.
Sample. There are 706 data points in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The period covered by the series is from January 2013 to July 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached a trough of 0 contracts on 10 May 2016; they hit a maximum of 24,483 on 10 December 2024; they had a mean of 3,238.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 2278.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | 2583.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 3509.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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