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 94,922 contracts on 14 July 2026, compared to 89,758 on 7 July 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 706 data points. The series covers the time span extending from January 2013 to July 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 52,407 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 147,680 on 5 March 2024; they hit a trough of 2,465 on 1 July 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 92920.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | 89758.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 94922.0 |
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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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