COT reports: Long positions held by asset managers in Nikkei 225 index futures: NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE - 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), long positions held by asset managers in Nikkei 225 index futures of the kind "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 6,068 contracts on 3 March 2026, compared to 7,030 on 7 October 2025.
Sample. There are 581 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The span of time covered by the series goes from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 16,764 contracts; they reached a maximum of 33,998 on 21 January 2014; they reached a minimum of 5,871 on 21 February 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 6530.0 |
| 2025-10-07 | 7030.0 |
| 2026-03-03 | 6068.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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