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
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 asset managers in AUD/USD FX futures of the kind "AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 126,330 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 116,738 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 711 observations overall. The time range covered by the series goes from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 52,799 contracts; they hit a peak of 147,680 on 5 March 2024; they recorded a bottom of 2,465 on 1 July 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 102986.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 116738.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 126330.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset 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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