COT reports: Short positions held by asset 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), short positions held by asset managers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 121,322 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 124,491 on 27 January.
Sample. This weekly series has 683 records overall. The time period covered by the series goes from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions registered a minimum of 25,981 contracts on 31 December 2013; they reached a maximum of 150,652 on 6 September 2022; they had an average value of 73,016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 127509.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 124491.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 121322.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset 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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