COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers in Nasdaq-100 index futures: MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Nasdaq-100 index futures 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 asset managers in Nasdaq-100 index futures of the kind "MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 221 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 216 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 307 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The period covered by the series stretches from August 2020 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 620 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 8 December 2020; they reached their maximum of 5,808 on 6 September 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 216.000 |
| 2026-09-22 | 216.000 |
| 2026-09-29 | 221.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers in Nasdaq-100 index futures |
| 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: "MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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