COT reports: Long positions held by asset managers 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 asset managers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 54,634 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 48,904 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series displayed in the figure, there are a total of 683 data points. The time span covered by the series goes from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions recorded their maximum of 110,147 contracts on 18 July 2023; they reached a trough of 1,401 on 15 March 2016; they had a mean of 36,198.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 41016.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 48904.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 54634.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by asset managers 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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