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" were 23,536 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 23,625 on 11 August.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 711 records in total. The time range covered by the series goes from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions registered a minimum of 9,103 contracts on 10 October 2017; they recorded a maximum of 91,740 on 30 July 2013; they were equal on average to 36,638.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 24002.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 23625.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 23536.0 |
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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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