COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by asset managers in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 11,417 contracts on 14 July 2026, versus 10,838 on 7 July 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 505 records. The series covers the period stretching from April 2014 to July 2026.
History. Here are a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached their maximum of 38,830 contracts on 16 July 2024; they recorded a bottom of -37,100 on 6 June 2023; they had an average value of 4,614.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 10714.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | 10838.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 11417.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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