COT reports: Net long 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), net long positions held by other reporting traders in ZAR/USD FX futures of the kind "SO AFRICAN RAND - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 267 contracts on 3 November 2026, the same value recorded on 27 October 2026.
Sample. There are 521 observations in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The series covers the span of time going from April 2014 to November 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of -157 contracts; they recorded a minimum of -3,385 contracts on 8 November 2022; they recorded their maximum of 6,797 contracts on 10 March 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-20 | 117.000 |
| 2026-10-27 | 267.000 |
| 2026-11-03 | 267.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long 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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