COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in S&P 500 index futures of the kind "E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 139,645 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 145,839 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 records in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The series covers the span of time extending from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their minimum of 128,807 contracts on 6 January 2026; they attained a maximum of 465,319 on 17 March 2020; they had a mean of 249,752.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 193170.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 145839.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 139645.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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