COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 35,916 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 45,607 on 8 September.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 514 data points overall. The series covers the period going from April 2014 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions achieved a maximum of 69,530 contracts on 10 September 2024; they recorded a minimum of 3,442 on 17 May 2016; they had a mean value of 19,347.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 35,148.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 45,607.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 35,916.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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