COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by dealers in AUD/USD FX futures of the kind "AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 82,358 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 78,235 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The time period covered by the series is from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a minimum of 232 contracts on 16 March 2021; they hit a peak of 148,435 on 23 April 2024; they had a mean value of 55,967.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 86606.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 78235.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 82358.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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