COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers 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 asset managers in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 1,434 contracts on 14 July 2026, compared to 1,726 on 7 July.
Sample. The weekly time series shown in the figure has 505 records. The time range covered by the series goes from April 2014 to July 2026.
History. Have a look at some statistics calculated on the full sample: positions recorded a minimum of 0 contracts on 17 April 2018; they peaked at 37,456 on 6 June 2023; they had an average value of 3,285.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1802.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | 1726.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 1434.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers 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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