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COT reports: Net long positions held by leveraged money managers in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly

Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), net long positions held by leveraged money managers in AUD/USD FX futures of the kind "AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 52,108 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 48,541 on 11 August 2026.

Sample. There are 711 observations overall in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The period covered by the series is from January 2013 to August 2026.

History. Here are a few summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached a trough of -65,027 contracts on 28 January 2014; they reached their highest level of 97,535 on 22 January 2013; they averaged 833.

Latest values

Date Value - Number of contracts
2026-08-04 40637.0
2026-08-11 48541.0
2026-08-18 52108.0

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Series Metadata

Field Value
Description Net long 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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Series Name Observations Start Date End Date
COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Long positions held by dealers in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Short positions held by dealers in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Net long positions held by dealers in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by dealers in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Long positions held by asset managers in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Net long positions held by asset managers in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Long positions held by leveraged money managers in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Net long positions held by leveraged money managers in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by leveraged money managers in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Long positions held by other reporting traders in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Net long positions held by other reporting traders in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Long positions held by all reporting traders in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Long positions held by non-reporting traders in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
COT reports: Net long positions held by non-reporting traders in AUD/USD FX futures: AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18