COT reports: Net long positions held by dealers 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), net long positions held by dealers in S&P 500 index futures of the kind "E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were -606,988 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to -634,203 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 717 records in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time span stretching from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged -415,174 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 392,375 on 13 September 2022; they reached a minimum of -975,338 on 19 November 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | -702938.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | -634203.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | -606988.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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: "E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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