COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: AUD/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 all reporting traders in AUD/USD FX futures of the kind "AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 304,339 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 437,575 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 715 observations in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The time span covered by the series goes from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here are some statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 130,218 contracts; they registered a minimum of 50,081 on 20 December 2016; they hit a maximum of 437,575 on 8 September 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 376,034 |
| 2026-09-08 | 437,575 |
| 2026-09-15 | 304,339 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders in futures on the AUD/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: "AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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