COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in EUR/USD FX futures of the kind "EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 15,357 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 17,013 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 683 records. The time period covered by the series extends from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions recorded a maximum of 79,858 contracts on 27 June 2017; they recorded a bottom of 2,648 on 30 March 2021; they had a mean of 19,869.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 15910.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 17013.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 15357.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other reporting traders 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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