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
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), 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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