COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by asset managers in Nikkei 225 index futures: NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE YEN DENOM - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Nikkei 225 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), compensated (spread) positions held by asset managers in Nikkei 225 index futures of the kind "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE YEN DENOM - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 190 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 97 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series shown in the plot, there are 717 observations in total. The time span covered by the series is from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 1,044 contracts; they hit a peak of 6,087 on 11 December 2018; they reached their minimum of 0 on 21 July 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 96.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 97.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 190.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by asset managers in Nikkei 225 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: "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE YEN DENOM - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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