COT reports: Long positions held by all reporting traders in GBP/USD FX futures: BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: GBP/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), long positions held by all reporting traders in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 193,737 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 187,839 on 27 January.
Sample. There are 683 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The time range covered by the series goes from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at a few simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 181,349 contracts; they reached their highest level of 306,228 on 9 December 2025; they hit a minimum of 100,227 on 25 June 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 174369.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 187839.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 193737.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all reporting traders in futures on the GBP/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: BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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