COT reports: Short positions held by dealers in Nasdaq-100 index futures: MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Nasdaq-100 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 dealers in Nasdaq-100 index futures of the kind "MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 2,726 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 1,809 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 307 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The time period covered by the series extends from August 2020 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached their maximum of 37,338 contracts on 17 June 2025; they hit a trough of 0 on 2 February 2021; they averaged 6,739.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 6534.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 1809.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 2726.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers in Nasdaq-100 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 NASDAQ-100 INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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