COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in S&P 500 index futures of the kind "S&P 500 STOCK INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 19,657 contracts on 14 September 2021, versus 23,750 on 7 September 2021.
Sample. The weekly time series shown in the chart has 415 observations overall. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to September 2021.
History. Have a look at a few statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 63,698 contracts; they registered a minimum of 9,919 on 19 March 2019; they achieved a maximum of 194,382 on 12 March 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2021-08-31 | 20765.0 |
| 2021-09-07 | 23750.0 |
| 2021-09-14 | 19657.0 |
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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: "S&P 500 STOCK INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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