COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in AUD/USD FX futures of the kind "AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 124,909 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 149,159 on 8 September.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 715 records. The span of time covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions recorded a bottom of 0 contracts on 18 June 2013; they reached a maximum of 174,431 on 12 May 2026; they were equal on average to 26,449.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 147,478 |
| 2026-09-08 | 149,159 |
| 2026-09-15 | 124,909 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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