COT reports: Long positions held by leveraged money 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), long positions held by leveraged money managers in Nikkei 225 index futures of the kind "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE YEN DENOM - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 3,264 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 3,001 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 data points in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The time range covered by the series is from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 17,389 contracts; they reached their maximum of 56,792 on 24 February 2015; they hit a minimum of 1,339 on 25 March 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 4031.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 3001.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 3264.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by leveraged money 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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