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 4,425 contracts on 14 July 2026, compared to 3,931 on 7 July 2026.
Sample. There are 505 data points in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The period covered by the series goes from April 2014 to July 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions registered a minimum of 182 contracts on 8 January 2019; they hit a maximum of 37,436 on 25 June 2024; they had an average value of 7,130.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 3388.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | 3931.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 4425.0 |
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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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