COT reports: Long positions held by all reporting traders in S&P 500 index futures: E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: S&P 500 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 all reporting traders in S&P 500 index futures of the kind "E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 1,649,059 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 1,640,466 on 22 September.
Sample. The weekly series shown in the plot has 717 data points overall. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions averaged 2,339,432 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 1,624,784 on 27 January 2026; they recorded a maximum of 3,737,948 on 17 March 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 2162079.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 1640466.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 1649059.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all reporting traders in S&P 500 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: "E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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