COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by leveraged money managers in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 2,663 contracts on 14 July 2026, versus 3,587 on 7 July.
Sample. In the weekly time series plotted above, there are a total of 505 observations. The series covers the period going from April 2014 to July 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a trough of -33,023 contracts on 25 June 2024; they achieved a maximum of 18,044 on 30 May 2023; they were equal on average to -1,385.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 3301.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | 3587.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 2663.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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