COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by leveraged money managers in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 2,336 contracts on 3 November 2026, compared to 3,881 on 27 October 2026.
Sample. There are 521 data points in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The time range covered by the series is from April 2014 to November 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 7,065 contracts; they hit a minimum of 182 contracts on 8 January 2019; they achieved a maximum of 37,436 contracts on 25 June 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-20 | 3,910.00 |
| 2026-10-27 | 3,881.00 |
| 2026-11-03 | 2,336.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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