COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in Nikkei 225 index futures of the kind "NIKKEI STOCK AVERAGE - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 11,702 contracts on 3 March 2026, compared to 12,400 on 7 October 2025.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are a total of 581 observations. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached a trough of 10,098 contracts on 7 January 2025; they peaked at 97,578 on 11 June 2013; they had an average value of 35,340.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 11894.0 |
| 2025-10-07 | 12400.0 |
| 2026-03-03 | 11702.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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