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" stood at 8,541 contracts on 1 September 2026, compared to 9,442 on 25 August 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series displayed in the plot, there are 512 data points in total. The series covers the time span going from April 2014 to September 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 5,775 contracts; they reached their minimum of 0 on 9 July 2019; they hit a maximum of 21,790 on 30 May 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 | 8129.0 |
| 2026-08-25 | 9442.0 |
| 2026-09-01 | 8541.0 |
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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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