COT reports: Long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 1,512 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 1,487 on 27 January.
Sample. There are 683 observations overall in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the period stretching from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 4,910 contracts; they hit a maximum of 32,065 on 2 April 2013; they recorded a minimum of 0 on 18 December 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 1041.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 1487.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 1512.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other 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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