COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in GBP/USD FX futures of the kind "BRITISH POUND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 427 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 1,027 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 data points overall in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the period extending from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Check out a few statistics calculated on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of 427 contracts on 30 December 2025; they recorded their maximum of 38,386 on 26 August 2014; they had a mean value of 9,761.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 1180.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 1027.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 427.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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