COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in Nikkei 225 index futures of the kind "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 0 contracts on 3 March 2026, the same value recorded on 7 October 2025.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 581 observations in total. The series covers the time span extending from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 5,053 contracts; they reached their maximum of 27,969 on 8 September 2015; they recorded a minimum of 0 on 29 May 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 227.000 |
| 2025-10-07 | 0 |
| 2026-03-03 | 0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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