COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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 leveraged money managers in NZD/USD FX futures of the kind "NZ DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 31,055 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 35,981 on 11 August.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 711 observations. The series covers the time period going from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their maximum of 39,705 contracts on 28 November 2017; they reached a trough of 4,157 on 10 June 2014; they averaged 15,518.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 33937.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 35981.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 31055.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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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