COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by asset managers in AUD/USD FX futures of the kind "AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 2,717 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 2,119 on 11 August.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 711 records. The series covers the period stretching from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 2,902 contracts; they hit a maximum of 14,905 on 29 April 2025; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 13 December 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 1996.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 2119.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 2717.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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