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" were 135,008 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 147,028 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 observations in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The time period covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 110,423 contracts; they hit a trough of 30,356 on 19 February 2013; they recorded their highest level of 198,846 on 30 August 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 152750.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 147028.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 135008.0 |
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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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