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GBPUSD trades at 1.33952 near the London high of 1.33962

Large speculators are net short 58715 contracts, a change of 121 on the week

GBPUSD · London session · Published Sep 21, 2026, 11:45 AM

GBPUSD last traded at 1.33952, inside a London session that has run 27.6 pips from 1.33686 to 1.33962. The closest level above is the Asia session high at 1.33954, 0.2 pips up; the prior day high is 3 pips above at 1.33982 and the round number 1.34000 is 4.8 pips above. Below, the session open at 1.33773 is 17.9 pips down.

Asia ran 22.9 pips over 595 minutes, opening at 1.33946, printing a high of 1.33954 and a low of 1.33724, and closing at 1.33774. An ordinary day of the last 14 covers 61.3 pips, and the latest day sits at the 60th percentile of the last 42 days we hold, which our volatility reading calls an ordinary day for this market.

The calendar shows 0 scheduled releases of impact 2 or 3 in the 24 hours to 2026-09-22 11:45 UTC, and it says it covers this whole window, so an empty list means nothing is scheduled. Our calendar covers up to 2026-10-21 00:00 UTC.

Large speculators are net short 58715 contracts in the latest COT report, dated 2026-09-15, a change of 121 on the week. That is the 39th percentile of the last 52 weekly reports.

Session brief

  1. GBPUSD price from our feedLast one-minute close 1.33952 at 2026-09-21 11:44 UTC, from our own candles.
  2. GBPUSD, London sessionOpen 1.33773, high 1.33962, low 1.33686, close 1.33952: a range of 27.6 pips over 285 minutes, from our own one-minute candles.
  3. GBPUSD reference levelsPrevious day and previous week high and low, the session open and the round numbers either side, measured on our own candles.
  4. GBPUSD, Asia sessionOpen 1.33946, high 1.33954, low 1.33724, close 1.33774: a range of 22.9 pips over 595 minutes, from our own one-minute candles.
  5. GBPUSD daily rangeAn ordinary day of the last 14 covers 61.3 pips. The latest day sits at the 60th percentile of the last 42 days we hold, which is an ordinary day for this market. Measured on our own candles.
  6. Economic calendar for GBP and USD0 scheduled releases of impact 2 or 3 in the 24 hours to 2026-09-22 11:45 UTC. Our calendar covers up to 2026-10-21 00:00 UTC.
  7. CFTC Commitments of Traders, 096742Large speculators are net short 58715 contracts, a change of 121 on the week. That is the 39th percentile of the last 52 weekly reports.

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