COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in AUD/USD FX futures of the kind "AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 700 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 500 on 11 August.
Sample. In the weekly series displayed in the graph, there are 711 observations. The period covered by the series goes from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 5,915 contracts; they registered a minimum of 0 on 30 November 2021; they hit a maximum of 35,666 on 8 September 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 500.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 500.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 700.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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