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" stood at 164,187 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 149,332 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 717 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time span going from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions reached a trough of 2,465 contracts on 1 July 2014; they hit a peak of 164,187 on 29 September 2026; they had a mean of 53,583.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 141097.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 149332.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 164187.0 |
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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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