COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by leveraged money managers in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 38,035 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 35,265 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series plotted above has a total of 683 observations. The series covers the time range going from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions attained a maximum of 130,173 contracts on 1 November 2016; they recorded a minimum of 19,069 on 15 June 2021; they had an average value of 47,132.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 25657.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 35265.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 38035.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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