COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money 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 leveraged money managers in EUR/USD FX futures of the kind "EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 81,712 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 89,062 on 27 January.
Sample. This weekly time series has a total of 683 data points. The time range covered by the series is from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics computed on the full sample: positions averaged 94,663 contracts; they reached a maximum of 205,053 on 25 October 2016; they hit a trough of 32,919 on 8 October 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 89837.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 89062.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 81712.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money 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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