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 -165 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 857 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series plotted above has 514 records overall. The series covers the period stretching from April 2014 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to -159 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 6,797 on 10 March 2020; they recorded a bottom of -3,385 on 8 November 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 857.000 |
| 2026-09-08 | 857.000 |
| 2026-09-15 | -165.000 |
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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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