COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 29,200 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 28,925 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has a total of 514 data points. The time range covered by the series extends from April 2014 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions attained a maximum of 35,590 contracts on 24 September 2024; they hit a trough of 0 on 10 December 2019; they had a mean of 7,037.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 27,160.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 28,925.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 29,200.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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