COT reports: Long positions held by dealers 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), long positions held by dealers in Nikkei 225 index futures of the kind "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE YEN DENOM - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 6,379 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 4,888 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The time period covered by the series extends from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of 1,096 contracts on 17 September 2019; they hit a maximum of 43,372 on 7 October 2014; they averaged 14,077.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 5795.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 4888.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 6379.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by dealers 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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