COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by leveraged money managers in S&P 500 index futures of the kind "E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 497,942 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 495,707 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 data points overall in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time span extending from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 580,888 contracts; they reached a maximum of 1,051,941 on 4 March 2014; they reached their lowest level of 223,618 on 8 February 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 454319.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 495707.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 497942.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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