COT reports: Long positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 0 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 997 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 514 data points in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The time period covered by the series is from April 2014 to September 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions recorded their highest level of 6,797 contracts on 10 March 2020; they recorded a minimum of 0 on 31 December 2019; they had a mean of 233.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 997.000 |
| 2026-09-08 | 997.000 |
| 2026-09-15 | 0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other reporting traders 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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