COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in Nasdaq-100 index futures of the kind "NASDAQ MINI - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 29,654 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 30,997 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 717 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the period stretching from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached a trough of 8,851 contracts on 16 December 2014; they peaked at 72,755 on 14 March 2023; they had a mean of 33,200.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 34251.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 30997.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 29654.0 |
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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: "NASDAQ MINI - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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