COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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 leveraged money managers in Nikkei 225 index futures of the kind "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE YEN DENOM - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 3,577 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 2,203 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 records in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the span of time stretching from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 8,270 contracts; they hit a peak of 28,725 on 9 December 2014; they reached their lowest level of 1,248 on 18 February 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 3,062.00 |
| 2026-09-22 | 2,203.00 |
| 2026-09-29 | 3,577.00 |
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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 YEN DENOM - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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