COT reports: Long positions held by dealers 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), long positions held by dealers in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 3,655 contracts on 14 July 2026, versus 3,074 on 7 July 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 505 data points. The series covers the time range going from April 2014 to July 2026.
History. Have a look at a few statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded their maximum of 21,946 contracts on 20 June 2023; they reached their lowest level of 0 on 12 June 2018; they had a mean value of 3,703.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 3153.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | 3074.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 3655.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by dealers 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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