COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in Nasdaq-100 index futures of the kind "NASDAQ MINI - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 8,124 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 8,336 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 data points in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The time period covered by the series extends from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 14,538 contracts; they attained a maximum of 200,248 on 22 September 2020; they reached a minimum of 2,522 on 5 May 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 7,742.00 |
| 2026-09-22 | 8,336.00 |
| 2026-09-29 | 8,124.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other reporting traders 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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