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 52,696 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 54,693 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series plotted above, there are 683 records in total. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions recorded their highest level of 199,736 contracts on 8 March 2016; they registered a minimum of 0 on 22 August 2023; they had an average value of 68,022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 56377.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 54693.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 52696.0 |
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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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