COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in Nikkei 225 index futures of the kind "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 1,839 contracts on 3 March 2026, compared to 2,681 on 7 October 2025.
Sample. There are 581 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the span of time stretching from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions achieved a maximum of 36,052 contracts on 26 February 2013; they recorded a minimum of 1,311 on 17 December 2024; they had a mean of 5,898.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2,161.00 |
| 2025-10-07 | 2,681.00 |
| 2026-03-03 | 1,839.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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