COT reports: Short positions held by dealers in Nasdaq-100 index futures: NASDAQ MINI - 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 "NASDAQ MINI - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 107,321 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 115,916 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 observations in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The time span covered by the series extends from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 105,552 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 8,477 on 27 September 2022; they recorded their maximum of 359,001 on 4 March 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 131666.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 115916.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 107321.0 |
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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: "NASDAQ MINI - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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