COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money 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 leveraged money managers in Nikkei 225 index futures of the kind "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 1,490 contracts on 3 March 2026, versus 5,459 on 7 October 2025.
Sample. There are 581 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The series covers the time span going from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Take a look at some simple statistics calculated on the full sample: positions recorded their maximum of 27,598 contracts on 10 December 2019; they hit a minimum of 0 on 30 November 2021; they had an average value of 8,184.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 5,940.00 |
| 2025-10-07 | 5,459.00 |
| 2026-03-03 | 1,490.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money 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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