COT reports: Short positions held by dealers in NZD/USD FX futures: NZ DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: NZD/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 dealers in NZD/USD FX futures of the kind "NZ DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 18,847 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 18,239 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the figure has 711 data points. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at some summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 8,125 contracts; they hit a peak of 33,398 on 17 April 2018; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 15 October 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 19456.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 18239.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 18847.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers in futures on the NZD/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: NZ DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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