COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by leveraged money managers in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 5,616 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 8,016 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 514 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The span of time covered by the series goes from April 2014 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 7,109 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 37,436 on 25 June 2024; they reached their lowest level of 182 on 8 January 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 6,525.00 |
| 2026-09-08 | 8,016.00 |
| 2026-09-15 | 5,616.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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