COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money 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 leveraged money managers in AUD/USD FX futures of the kind "AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 28,694 contracts on 14 July 2026, versus 29,617 on 7 July.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 706 data points. The time period covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to July 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their highest level of 91,740 contracts on 30 July 2013; they hit a minimum of 9,103 on 10 October 2017; they averaged 36,714.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 32359.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | 29617.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 28694.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money 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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