COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by leveraged money managers in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 2,016 contracts on 1 September 2026, compared to 2,533 on 25 August 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 512 data points. The series covers the period extending from April 2014 to September 2026.
History. Take a look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions recorded their maximum of 18,044 contracts on 30 May 2023; they reached their lowest level of -33,023 on 25 June 2024; they had a mean value of -1,335.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 | 1681.0 |
| 2026-08-25 | 2533.0 |
| 2026-09-01 | 2016.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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