COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in S&P 500 index futures: E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: S&P 500 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), compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in S&P 500 index futures of the kind "E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 371 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 448 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 records overall in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The time span covered by the series goes from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their highest level of 90,520 contracts on 12 December 2023; they reached their lowest level of 170 on 5 May 2026; they had an average value of 11,649.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 566.000 |
| 2026-09-22 | 448.000 |
| 2026-09-29 | 371.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in S&P 500 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: "E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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