COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by dealers in Nikkei 225 index futures of the kind "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE YEN DENOM - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 6,121 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 6,059 on 22 September.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the plot has 717 records. The time range covered by the series is from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached a trough of 482 contracts on 17 September 2024; they reached their maximum of 30,121 on 6 June 2017; they had a mean value of 9,938.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 5522.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 6059.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 6121.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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