COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 200,584 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 198,537 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series shown in the plot has 683 data points. The period covered by the series goes from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics computed on the whole sample: positions reached their minimum of 97,875 contracts on 25 June 2013; they achieved a maximum of 297,461 on 9 December 2025; they were equal on average to 177,295.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 179267.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 198537.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 200584.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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