COT reports: Net long 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), net long positions held by asset managers in Nikkei 225 index futures of the kind "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE YEN DENOM - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 6,261 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 6,524 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 records overall in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 10,114 contracts; they peaked at 29,914 on 6 September 2022; they reached their lowest level of -10,873 on 3 April 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 6145.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 6524.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 6261.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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 YEN DENOM - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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