COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by other reporting traders in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 165 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 140 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 514 observations overall in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The time range covered by the series stretches from April 2014 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 392 contracts; they reached a maximum of 3,385 on 8 November 2022; they reached a minimum of 0 on 10 December 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 140.000 |
| 2026-09-08 | 140.000 |
| 2026-09-15 | 165.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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