COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 27,304 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 25,922 on 27 January.
Sample. This weekly series has 683 data points in total. The time period covered by the series goes from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions hit a minimum of 17,706 contracts on 25 March 2014; they attained a maximum of 111,695 on 16 December 2025; they had a mean of 30,885.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 28345.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 25922.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 27304.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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