COT reports: Long positions held by dealers 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), long positions held by dealers in S&P 500 index futures of the kind "E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 178,591 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 168,132 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 records in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time span going from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 253,758 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 94,777 on 23 July 2013; they hit a peak of 637,896 on 15 September 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 220,012 |
| 2026-09-22 | 168,132 |
| 2026-09-29 | 178,591 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by dealers 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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