COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders in S&P 500 index futures: MICRO E-MINI S&P 500 INDEX - 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 other reporting traders in S&P 500 index futures of the kind "MICRO E-MINI S&P 500 INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 1,200 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 0 on 22 September.
Sample. This weekly time series has 277 data points in total. The time range covered by the series stretches from July 2020 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a trough of 0 contracts on 15 December 2020; they achieved a maximum of 53,158 on 5 December 2023; they had a mean value of 8,447.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 1,000.00 |
| 2026-09-22 | 0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 1,200.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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: "MICRO E-MINI S&P 500 INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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