COT reports: Long positions held by dealers 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 dealers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 78,217 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 122,820 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 715 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series is from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their highest level of 199,736 contracts on 8 March 2016; they reached their lowest level of 0 on 22 August 2023; they had a mean value of 70,681.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 133,142 |
| 2026-09-08 | 122,820 |
| 2026-09-15 | 78,217.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by dealers 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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