COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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 leveraged money managers in Nasdaq-100 index futures of the kind "MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 98,089 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 72,470 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 307 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time period extending from August 2020 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 67,365 contracts; they reached a maximum of 259,262 on 4 August 2026; they recorded a bottom of 1,448 on 29 June 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 86973.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 72470.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 98089.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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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