COT reports: Long positions held by leveraged money managers 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 leveraged money managers in S&P 500 index futures of the kind "E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 125,453 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 120,133 on 22 September.
Sample. The weekly time series displayed in the chart has 717 records. The time range covered by the series is from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had an average value of 304,320 contracts; they reached a trough of 81,745 on 21 March 2023; they hit a maximum of 707,002 on 16 December 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 161176.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 120133.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 125453.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by leveraged money managers 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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