COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in S&P 500 index futures of the kind "E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 1,756,277 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 1,744,814 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The time period covered by the series extends from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 2,399,522 contracts; they hit a maximum of 4,088,845 on 17 March 2020; they recorded a minimum of 1,705,972 on 24 June 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 2253349.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 1744814.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 1756277.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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