COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by leveraged money managers in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 9,158 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 8,370 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 514 records overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time period stretching from April 2014 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 5,787 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 0 on 9 July 2019; they hit a maximum of 21,790 on 30 May 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 8,541.00 |
| 2026-09-08 | 8,370.00 |
| 2026-09-15 | 9,158.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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