{"id":57147,"date":"2026-07-18T02:51:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/uncategorized\/cftc-data-show-sterling-net-shorts-narrow-as-speculators-trim-bearish-bets\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T02:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:51:01","slug":"cftc-data-show-sterling-net-shorts-narrow-as-speculators-trim-bearish-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/live-updates\/cftc-data-show-sterling-net-shorts-narrow-as-speculators-trim-bearish-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"CFTC Data Show Sterling Net Shorts Narrow as Speculators Trim Bearish Bets"},"content":{"rendered":"

CFTC data show United Kingdom GBP non-commercial net positions at \u00a3-71.3k, narrowing from the prior \u00a3-87.9k. The move indicates a reduced net-short stance in sterling among non-commercial traders over the latest reporting period.<\/p>\n

Change in Sterling Positioning<\/h3>\n

While positioning remains negative, the change in the headline figure points to some short covering, or fresh long interest, relative to the previous week.<\/p>\n

Insight into Speculative Activity<\/h3>\n

The release provides a snapshot of speculative positioning as captured by the CFTC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CFTC data show UK GBP non-commercial net shorts narrowed to \u00a3-71.3k, signaling reduced bearish sterling positioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":55846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-updates"],"acf":{"acf_article_selection_author":null},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}