COT reports: Net long 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), net long positions held by non-reporting traders in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 1,362 contracts on 3 November 2026, compared to 1,451 on 27 October.
Sample. There are 521 data points in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The time period covered by the series stretches from April 2014 to November 2026.
History. Check out a few statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 29 contracts; they hit a minimum of -1,783 contracts on 14 April 2020; they recorded their maximum of 2,684 contracts on 2 June 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-20 | 1,125.00 |
| 2026-10-27 | 1,451.00 |
| 2026-11-03 | 1,362.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long 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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