COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in NZD/USD FX futures of the kind "NZ DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 5,064 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 5,500 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 711 records in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The time range covered by the series is from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 4,544 contracts; they reached their maximum of 42,521 on 16 June 2026; they recorded a minimum of 1,194 on 17 March 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 6146.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 5500.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 5064.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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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