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What positions do traders hold in BRAZILIAN REAL futures?

In BRAZILIAN REAL futures, leveraged funds held a net long position of 18,677 contracts and open interest was 135,679 contracts on (CFTC Commitments of Traders, released ).

Net positions in BRAZILIAN REAL futures each week: leveraged funds, asset managers and institutional, dealers and intermediaries, contracts

8 November 2016 to 20 October 2026Net is long less short, ours; contracts

Net positions in BRAZILIAN REAL futures each week: leveraged funds, asset managers and institutional, dealers and intermediaries, contracts (8 November 2016 to 20 October 2026)
Net positions in BRAZILIAN REAL futures each week: leveraged funds, asset managers and institutional, dealers and intermediaries, contracts (22 October 2024 to 20 October 2026)

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  • Leveraged funds+18,677
  • Asset managers and institutional+51,268
  • Dealers and intermediaries−65,413

Open interest in BRAZILIAN REAL futures each week, contracts

8 November 2016 to 20 October 2026Contracts

Open interest in BRAZILIAN REAL futures each week, contracts (8 November 2016 to 20 October 2026)
Open interest in BRAZILIAN REAL futures each week, contracts (22 October 2024 to 20 October 2026)

Each point is one week of BRAZILIAN REAL futures from the CFTC's Traders in Financial Futures report (futures only): the net position, long contracts less short contracts, of one group of traders, or all open contracts. The chart shows up to the newest ten years. Pointing at the chart shows the week and the value.

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The latest week of BRAZILIAN REAL futures beside the one before it and the nearest ones a year and five years earlier. The weeks of the last two years and every group's long and short are in the tables under "The numbers behind the chart".

MeasureLatestThe week beforeA year earlierFive years earlier
Week
Open interest135,679139,05698,46029,983
Leveraged funds, net+18,677+27,614+1,391+3,598
Asset managers and institutional, net+51,268+55,214+54,352−4,580
Dealers and intermediaries, net−65,413−62,841−45,548−1,493

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Leveraged funds held a net long position of 18,677 contracts in BRAZILIAN REAL futures in the week to , the largest net long since the week of .

The dealers and intermediaries were net short 65,413 contracts that week, and asset managers and institutional net long 51,268 contracts.

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Open interestBRAZILIAN REAL, week of 20 October 2026

Open interest was 135,679 contracts in the week to , the most since the week of .

−3,377 contracts from the week before, held by 129 reporting traders.

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RecordsOurs, since the week of 17 April 2012

Open interest was highest at 152,424 contracts in the week of .

Leveraged funds held their largest net long, 32,847 contracts, in the week of , and their largest net short, 40,335 contracts, in the week of .

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The other groupsNet, and the last week larger

Asset managers and institutional: net long 51,268 contracts, the largest net long since the week of .

Dealers and intermediaries: net short 65,413 contracts, the largest net short since the week of .

Other reportable traders: net short 8,998 contracts, the largest net short since the week of .

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Understanding the futures positions report

Where it stands today

Leveraged funds were net long 18,677 contracts in BRAZILIAN REAL futures in the week of 20 October 2026.

Who are the groups in the report?

The CFTC's Traders in Financial Futures report, one of its Commitments of Traders reports, gives the positions held in each financial futures market on a Tuesday, sorted by kind of trader: leveraged funds, asset managers and institutional investors, dealers and intermediaries, other reportable traders and traders below the reporting level.

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A position is a number of contracts, long or short; dealers, asset managers, leveraged funds and other reportables also report spread positions, which hold both. The CFTC assigns each reporting trader to a group from the business the trader reports. This page uses the report's futures-only figures, which leave out options. The report gives the contract size of BRAZILIAN REAL futures as (CONTRACTS OF BRL 100,000), and the market as BRAZILIAN REAL - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE.

What 500metrics adds: net positions (long less short, which leave out spread positions), the change from the week before, the records since the week of 17 April 2012, and the last week a group's net position was larger on the same side.

The numbers behind the chart

How were the BRAZILIAN REAL positions split between long and short?Week of 20 October 2026, contracts
Long, short and spread positions of each group in BRAZILIAN REAL futures (BRAZILIAN REAL - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE), week of 20 October 2026 (contracts; net is ours)
GroupLongShortSpreadNet
Leveraged funds60,77742,100964+18,677
Asset managers and institutional52,130862476+51,268
Dealers and intermediaries12,58277,995584−65,413
Other reportable traders2,66111,6590−8,998
Nonreportable (below the reporting level)5,5051,039n/a+4,466

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What were the net positions in BRAZILIAN REAL futures each week?104 weeks, newest first, since 29 October 2024
Open interest and net positions in BRAZILIAN REAL futures by week, newest first (contracts; net is ours)
WeekOpen interestLeveraged funds, netAsset managers and institutional, netDealers and intermediaries, netOther reportable traders, net
135,679+18,677+51,268−65,413−8,998
139,056+27,614+55,214−62,841−24,128
134,541+27,396+56,610−63,683−24,795
146,704+9,553+67,015−59,755−20,549
117,063+14,917+59,481−52,093−26,780
115,887+16,105+57,476−48,626−28,873
110,644+24,871+51,695−47,230−33,119
127,273+16,046+48,734−43,840−27,845
131,553+14,713+48,879−45,768−22,660
113,408+13,968+51,429−53,715−15,486
118,155+8,333+61,870−61,859−12,284
111,605+10,214+59,237−68,068−4,933
136,397−7,810+61,627−52,721−4,813
110,652+786+57,206−57,846−3,647
106,059+1,675+53,555−59,037−208
98,743+1,155+48,584−55,908+3,096
114,990+7,726+46,076−60,788+3,227
104,284+7,877+51,837−66,112+3,052
106,488+5,421+55,977−66,849+1,941
112,091−2,817+66,533−68,022+1,206
123,348+3,945+67,969−68,904−7,109
152,333+10,453+71,874−77,410−8,078
129,402+10,240+73,704−78,424−9,507
132,278+13,363+77,048−83,394−11,629
131,121+13,252+75,327−82,998−9,432
151,212+6,296+71,805−72,584−9,868
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WeekOpen interestLeveraged funds, netAsset managers and institutional, netDealers and intermediaries, netOther reportable traders, net
138,521+6,750+72,372−73,729−9,839
130,878+2,857+72,909−70,874−8,935
114,071+389+70,674−68,295−7,170
138,554+2,384+64,333−62,013−8,474
109,875+5,369+58,818−62,130−5,876
101,943+12,182+56,549−68,751−4,180
104,291+15,598+56,667−67,844−8,439
105,739+8,733+59,384−68,478−3,462
133,514−314+56,983−54,478−6,911
94,638+2,325+49,916−51,164−5,607
89,018+1,414+46,743−45,010−7,978
87,335+1,726+46,596−47,141−5,352
120,493+4,956+46,819−48,161−7,495
81,451+2,411+43,387−50,076+654
78,988+916+42,796−48,450+1,609
73,669+1,420+37,367−43,601+2,133
107,900+13,340+35,062−53,579+2,328
113,899+9,204+41,342−55,178+2,574
90,529+4,969+52,583−61,867+1,481
98,454+9,336+59,763−65,904−5,704
100,529+14,594+58,461−62,735−13,491
130,151+11,929+58,411−63,406−10,782
105,331+15,502+58,825−66,905−11,151
106,911+19,362+60,124−62,846−20,068
91,324+6,477+54,927−60,146−4,566
130,707−53+52,943−41,887−14,311
100,105+681+52,937−41,908−14,356
98,460+1,391+54,352−45,548−12,746
103,701+4,284+56,602−47,996−16,020
140,410+22,349+57,277−44,767−38,097
134,318+17,134+68,328−55,453−33,206
120,214+16,831+72,995−58,824−34,532
107,535+13,409+70,868−63,000−25,288
132,738−1,156+75,349−48,740−26,109
132,012−7,230+76,704−47,058−26,049
105,972−4,849+70,666−44,351−24,550
103,240+7,763+61,918−39,102−34,066
89,286−5,930+59,456−41,343−15,415
114,097+3,170+57,136−41,360−22,002
93,421−828+62,200−42,331−22,572
95,160−7,647+67,037−43,353−19,933
100,849+125+69,079−27,475−45,930
124,507+2,205+65,220−19,966−48,451
132,579+189+58,161−24,918−36,884
110,802+8,334+51,508−20,900−42,740
95,116−2,771+51,301−23,321−28,780
85,447−6,325+51,978−29,173−19,606
126,347+11,010+54,176−40,526−28,157
91,585−3,417+58,531−43,198−21,794
97,197+8,900+63,205−39,376−36,282
89,250−11,289+67,341−45,504−13,514
124,938+8,751+58,477−52,744−16,720
89,246+4,317+46,882−55,756+2,762
86,747+1,109+59,823−62,145−144
93,997−8,934+74,695−66,272−847
128,304−9,966+73,915−63,143−4,821
109,079−9,255+72,446−64,702−693
99,549−2,602+57,789−62,282+4,745
102,759−1,692+69,126−66,648−2,703
105,980−11,170+78,334−65,035−2,776
152,424−20,353+63,335−34,898−9,668
85,355−12,438+47,890−30,112−6,616
71,300−11,798+36,712−21,043−4,228
58,770−9,563+29,073−16,580−3,411
79,915−19,611+11,650+18,495−10,621
75,156−14,292−7,967+27,723−4,303
76,314−15,491−17,434+33,215+903
75,107−10,720−24,864+34,913+1,561
94,033−6,728−25,098+28,990+3,262
77,990−4,423−21,700+24,483+3,006
77,962−6,704−20,822+24,276+4,633
70,832−4,052−21,414+21,419+4,830
60,634−7,585−15,390+18,762+5,446
90,250−8,500−28,442+24,919+12,141
81,235−3,417−36,246+27,567+11,822
74,045−2,790−32,624+24,346+11,031
64,898−5,950−21,598+18,293+10,101
58,681−184−12,556+6,727+6,136

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What do these figures leave out, and how are they cited?Limits, dates and how to cite

What this number cannot tell you

  • Positions are those of the Tuesday the report is dated; the CFTC released the report on 23 October 2026.
  • A trader's group comes from the CFTC's own classification. Nonreportable positions are open interest less the reportable positions.
  • Net positions leave out spread positions, so a group's long and short do not account for all of its contracts.
  • Records and ranks are counted from the week of 17 April 2012, the start of this market's latest run of weekly reports. The CFTC can revise a week in a later report, and our collector keeps the earlier figure.
  • Contracts are not comparable between markets: the size of one is the CFTC's contract size above.
  • Market names are the CFTC's own, written as it writes them. 500metrics is independent and is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by any index provider, exchange or company named in them.

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How to cite this

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Commitments of Traders, Traders in Financial Futures report (futures only), BRAZILIAN REAL - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE, week of 20 October 2026, released 23 October 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "What positions do traders hold in BRAZILIAN REAL futures?", https://500metrics.com/futures-positions/brazilian-real.

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