COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers 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 asset managers in AUD/USD FX futures of the kind "AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 141,097 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 142,584 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 715 observations overall. The time period covered by the series extends from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 53,295 contracts; they reached a minimum of 2,465 on 1 July 2014; they peaked at 147,680 on 5 March 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 139,302 |
| 2026-09-08 | 142,584 |
| 2026-09-15 | 141,097 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers 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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