COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers 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 asset managers in S&P 500 index futures of the kind "E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 200,431 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 184,200 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series plotted above, there are 717 observations. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few statistics computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 532,823 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 149,049 on 24 September 2024; they hit a maximum of 1,099,884 on 24 March 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 237,391 |
| 2026-09-22 | 184,200 |
| 2026-09-29 | 200,431 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers 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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