COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers in Nikkei 225 index futures: NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE - 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 asset managers in Nikkei 225 index futures of the kind "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 575 contracts on 3 March 2026, versus 0 on 7 October 2025.
Sample. This weekly series has 581 observations in total. The span of time covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their maximum of 4,263 contracts on 17 April 2018; they reached a minimum of 0 on 3 September 2013; they had a mean value of 633.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 201.000 |
| 2025-10-07 | 0 |
| 2026-03-03 | 575.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers 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 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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