COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders 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), short positions held by other reporting traders in Nikkei 225 index futures of the kind "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 0 contracts on 3 March 2026, as on 7 October 2025.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 581 data points in total. The series covers the time span stretching from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions registered a minimum of 0 contracts on 10 September 2019; they hit a peak of 27,969 on 8 September 2015; they were equal on average to 5,053.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 227.0 |
| 2025-10-07 | 0.0 |
| 2026-03-03 | 0.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other reporting traders 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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