COT reports: Short positions held by dealers in Nasdaq-100 index futures: NASDAQ MINI - 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 dealers in Nasdaq-100 index futures of the kind "NASDAQ MINI - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 107,321 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 115,916 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 717 observations. The series covers the period stretching from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions peaked at 359,001 contracts on 4 March 2014; they hit a trough of 8,477 on 27 September 2022; they had a mean of 105,552.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 131,666 |
| 2026-09-22 | 115,916 |
| 2026-09-29 | 107,321 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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: "NASDAQ MINI - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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