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 35,411 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 37,143 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the graph has a total of 683 data points. The series covers the time range going from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 10,535 contracts; they recorded a minimum of -90,282 on 1 November 2016; they recorded their maximum of 127,689 on 22 April 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 40778.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 37143.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 35411.0 |
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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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