COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by asset managers in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 12,851 contracts on 14 July 2026, compared to 12,564 on 7 July.
Sample. There are 505 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The time period covered by the series goes from April 2014 to July 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 7,899 contracts; they reached their minimum of 0 on 9 June 2015; they reached their maximum of 40,206 on 16 July 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 12516.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | 12564.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 12851.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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