COT reports: Net long positions held by leveraged money 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), net long positions held by leveraged money managers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 18,878 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 34,627 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 715 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The time range covered by the series goes from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 11,387 contracts; they reached their lowest level of -90,282 on 1 November 2016; they peaked at 127,689 on 22 April 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 43,167.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 34,627.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 18,878.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by leveraged money 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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