COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in Nasdaq-100 index futures of the kind "MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 30,841 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 42,636 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 307 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series is from August 2020 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded their highest level of 144,718 contracts on 8 December 2020; they hit a trough of 12,611 on 23 February 2021; they were equal on average to 38,588.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 83873.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 42636.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 30841.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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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