COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in AUD/USD FX futures of the kind "AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 16,721 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 15,699 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 data points in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time period extending from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions registered a minimum of 14,384 contracts on 25 August 2026; they hit a maximum of 188,802 on 15 September 2026; they had an average value of 28,008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 188802.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 15699.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 16721.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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