COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in Nikkei 225 index futures: NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE YEN DENOM - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Nikkei 225 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 all reporting traders in Nikkei 225 index futures of the kind "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE YEN DENOM - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 11,267 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 9,501 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 717 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 27,776 contracts; they hit a trough of 6,666 on 17 September 2024; they recorded a maximum of 70,806 on 6 June 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 9,885.00 |
| 2026-09-22 | 9,501.00 |
| 2026-09-29 | 11,267.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders in Nikkei 225 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: "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE YEN DENOM - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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