COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by leveraged money managers in ZAR/USD FX futures: SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: ZAR/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), compensated (spread) positions held by leveraged money managers in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 513 contracts on 3 November 2026, as on 27 October.
Sample. There are 521 observations overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time range extending from April 2014 to November 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics computed on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 464 contracts; they reached a minimum of 0 contracts on 19 November 2019; they reached their maximum of 18,219 contracts on 10 December 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-20 | 513.000 |
| 2026-10-27 | 513.000 |
| 2026-11-03 | 513.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by leveraged money managers in futures on the ZAR/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: "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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