COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by leveraged money managers in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 529 contracts on 14 July 2026, the same value recorded on 7 July.
Sample. There are 505 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The time range covered by the series extends from April 2014 to July 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions attained a maximum of 18,219 contracts on 10 December 2024; they reached their lowest level of 0 on 3 June 2014; they had an average value of 459.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 521.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | 529.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 529.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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