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 84,525 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 72,292 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 711 records overall. The series covers the period extending from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions recorded their maximum of 148,435 contracts on 23 April 2024; they recorded a minimum of 232 on 16 March 2021; they averaged 55,640.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 61335.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 72292.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 84525.0 |
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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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