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
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), short positions held by all reporting traders in AUD/USD FX futures of the kind "AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 293,079 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 290,789 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 717 observations in total. The series covers the time period going from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged 130,670 contracts; they reached their highest level of 437,575 on 8 September 2026; they reached a trough of 50,081 on 20 December 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 304339.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 290789.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 293079.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders 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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