COT reports: Long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in S&P 500 index futures of the kind "E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 55,473 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 49,621 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 717 observations in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The period covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 125,942 contracts; they reached their minimum of 49,486 on 28 July 2026; they hit a maximum of 391,694 on 17 March 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 62588.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 49621.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 55473.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other 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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