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 22,441 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 20,632 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 514 data points in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The series covers the span of time going from April 2014 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions achieved a maximum of 40,206 contracts on 16 July 2024; they recorded a minimum of 0 on 18 June 2019; they averaged 8,035.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 18,015.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 20,632.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 22,441.0 |
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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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