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 202,475 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 286,925 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. The weekly series presented in the graph has 715 observations. The series covers the period going from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 184,219 contracts; they hit a trough of 100,227 on 25 June 2013; they reached their highest level of 365,312 on 10 March 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 286,172 |
| 2026-09-08 | 286,925 |
| 2026-09-15 | 202,475 |
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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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