Australian Dollar (AUD) COT Report
The Commitment of Traders (COT) report shows how the largest traders are positioned in Australian Dollar (AUD) futures each week. The CFTC splits open interest into speculators (managed money) and commercial hedgers, so you can see who is leaning which way. Tracking when Australian Dollar (AUD) speculative positioning reaches an extreme, and how speculators line up against commercials, is one of the most widely followed sentiment tools in futures.
In currency futures, commercials are corporates and banks hedging cross-border flows, so speculative net positioning in Australian Dollar (AUD) is one of the most watched sentiment gauges in macro trading.
How to read Australian Dollar (AUD) positioning
A 52-week z-score measures how stretched Australian Dollar (AUD) speculative positioning is versus the past year: a high positive reading means speculators are crowded long, a deeply negative one means crowded short. Crowded extremes often precede reversals, while the positioning regime tells you whether the current structure is trending or stretched. New to this? Start with how to read the COT report.
COTInsight scores Australian Dollar (AUD) on nine analytical layers every week, the moment the CFTC data lands: the 52-week z-score, the 3-year COT Index, regime classification, price-versus-positioning divergence, open-interest trend and more, with up to ten years of history so you can see how today compares to every prior extreme.