COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 29,351 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 27,407 on 27 January.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 683 observations. The time period covered by the series is from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 32,834 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 1,652 on 6 October 2015; they hit a maximum of 125,746 on 6 May 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 15421.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 27407.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 29351.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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