COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by leveraged money managers in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 8,653 contracts on 3 November 2026, compared to 9,143 on 27 October.
Sample. There are 521 observations in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The time period covered by the series is from April 2014 to November 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some statistics calculated on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of 0 contracts on 9 July 2019; they reached their highest level of 21,790 contracts on 30 May 2023; they had a mean value of 5,825 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-20 | 8,798.00 |
| 2026-10-27 | 9,143.00 |
| 2026-11-03 | 8,653.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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