COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by asset 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 asset managers in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 35 contracts on 14 July 2026, compared to 206 on 7 July 2026.
Sample. There are 505 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The time range covered by the series goes from April 2014 to July 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions achieved a maximum of 803 contracts on 21 January 2025; they reached their minimum of 0 on 27 December 2016; they had a mean value of 42.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 208.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | 206.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 35.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by asset 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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