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 7,088 contracts on 14 July 2026, compared to 7,518 on 7 July 2026.
Sample. There are 505 observations overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The time span covered by the series is from April 2014 to July 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 5,745 contracts; they hit a minimum of 0 on 7 August 2018; they reached their highest level of 21,790 on 30 May 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 6689.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | 7518.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 7088.0 |
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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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