COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers in EUR/USD FX futures: EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: EUR/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 asset managers in EUR/USD FX futures of the kind "EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 234,737 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 233,765 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the graph has 715 observations. The time span covered by the series goes from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached their maximum of 239,865 contracts on 28 July 2026; they hit a minimum of 30,356 on 19 February 2013; they had a mean of 113,724.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 205,001 |
| 2026-09-08 | 233,765 |
| 2026-09-15 | 234,737 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers in futures on the EUR/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: "EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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