COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 1,125 contracts on 14 July 2026, versus 1,168 on 7 July 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 505 records. The time range covered by the series is from April 2014 to July 2026.
History. Check out some statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 1,391 contracts; they registered a minimum of 439 on 14 February 2017; they recorded a maximum of 6,705 on 16 June 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 1105.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | 1168.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 1125.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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