COT reports: Long positions held by dealers in S&P 500 index futures: S&P 500 STOCK INDEX - 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 dealers in S&P 500 index futures of the kind "S&P 500 STOCK INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 18,300 contracts on 14 September 2021, compared to 18,956 on 7 September.
Sample. There are 415 data points in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The time span covered by the series is from January 2013 to September 2021.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics computed on the whole sample: positions registered a minimum of 0 contracts on 16 July 2019; they recorded a maximum of 83,453 on 15 September 2015; they were equal on average to 22,193.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2021-08-31 | 18666.0 |
| 2021-09-07 | 18956.0 |
| 2021-09-14 | 18300.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by dealers 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: "S&P 500 STOCK INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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