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
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 leveraged money managers in AUD/USD FX futures of the kind "AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 31,968 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 28,369 on 22 September.
Sample. This weekly time series has 717 observations. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had a mean of 36,592 contracts; they peaked at 91,740 on 30 July 2013; they hit a trough of 9,103 on 10 October 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 31858.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 28369.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 31968.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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