COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by other reporting traders in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were -245 contracts on 14 July 2026, versus -345 on 7 July.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 505 observations. The series covers the period stretching from April 2014 to July 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their minimum of -3,385 contracts on 8 November 2022; they hit a maximum of 6,797 on 10 March 2020; they had a mean value of -167.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | -463.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | -345.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | -245.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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