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" were 245 contracts on 14 July 2026, compared to 345 on 7 July.
Sample. There are 505 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The time span covered by the series goes from April 2014 to July 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some statistics computed on the full sample: positions hit a trough of 0 contracts on 10 June 2014; they reached their maximum of 3,385 on 8 November 2022; they had an average value of 395.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 463.0 |
| 2026-07-07 | 345.0 |
| 2026-07-14 | 245.0 |
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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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