COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in S&P 500 index futures of the kind "E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 1,756,277 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 1,744,814 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series plotted above, there are 717 data points. The series covers the span of time going from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 2,399,522 contracts; they reached their maximum of 4,088,845 on 17 March 2020; they reached their minimum of 1,705,972 on 24 June 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 2,253,349 |
| 2026-09-22 | 1,744,814 |
| 2026-09-29 | 1,756,277 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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