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What positions do traders hold in MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures?

In MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures, leveraged funds held a net short position of 86,381 contracts and open interest was 134,202 contracts on (CFTC Commitments of Traders, released ).

Net positions in MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures each week: leveraged funds, asset managers and institutional, dealers and intermediaries, contracts

4 August 2020 to 20 October 2026Net is long less short, ours; contracts

Net positions in MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures each week: leveraged funds, asset managers and institutional, dealers and intermediaries, contracts (4 August 2020 to 20 October 2026)
Net positions in MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures each week: leveraged funds, asset managers and institutional, dealers and intermediaries, contracts (22 October 2024 to 20 October 2026)

The lines

  • Leveraged funds−86,381
  • Asset managers and institutional+9,768
  • Dealers and intermediaries+41,808

Open interest in MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures each week, contracts

4 August 2020 to 20 October 2026Contracts

Open interest in MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures each week, contracts (4 August 2020 to 20 October 2026)
Open interest in MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures each week, contracts (22 October 2024 to 20 October 2026)

Each point is one week of MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures from the CFTC's Traders in Financial Futures report (futures only): the net position, long contracts less short contracts, of one group of traders, or all open contracts. The chart shows up to the newest ten years. Pointing at the chart shows the week and the value.

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The latest week of MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures beside the one before it and the nearest ones a year and five years earlier. The weeks of the last two years and every group's long and short are in the tables under "The numbers behind the chart".

MeasureLatestThe week beforeA year earlierFive years earlier
Week
Open interest134,202152,605111,69769,594
Leveraged funds, net−86,381−102,978−48,205+8,472
Asset managers and institutional, net+9,768+10,790+2,846+429
Dealers and intermediaries, net+41,808+41,250+37,813−3,995

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Observed .

Right now

Leveraged funds held a net short position of 86,381 contracts in MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures in the week to , the largest net short since the week of .

The dealers and intermediaries were net long 41,808 contracts that week, and asset managers and institutional net long 9,768 contracts.

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Open interestMICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX, week of 20 October 2026

Open interest was 134,202 contracts in the week to , the most since the week of .

−18,403 contracts from the week before, held by 72 reporting traders.

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RecordsOurs, since the week of 4 August 2020

Open interest was highest at 311,244 contracts in the week of .

Leveraged funds held their largest net long, 133,854 contracts, in the week of , and their largest net short, 233,143 contracts, in the week of .

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The other groupsNet, and the last week larger

Asset managers and institutional: net long 9,768 contracts, the largest net long since the week of .

Dealers and intermediaries: net long 41,808 contracts, the largest net long since the week of .

Other reportable traders: net long 175 contracts, the largest net long since the week of .

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Understanding the futures positions report

Where it stands today

Leveraged funds were net short 86,381 contracts in MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures in the week of 20 October 2026.

Who are the groups in the report?

The CFTC's Traders in Financial Futures report, one of its Commitments of Traders reports, gives the positions held in each financial futures market on a Tuesday, sorted by kind of trader: leveraged funds, asset managers and institutional investors, dealers and intermediaries, other reportable traders and traders below the reporting level.

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A position is a number of contracts, long or short; dealers, asset managers, leveraged funds and other reportables also report spread positions, which hold both. The CFTC assigns each reporting trader to a group from the business the trader reports. This page uses the report's futures-only figures, which leave out options. The report gives the contract size of MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures as (NASDAQ 100 STOCK INDEX x $2), and the market as MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE.

What 500metrics adds: net positions (long less short, which leave out spread positions), the change from the week before, the records since the week of 4 August 2020, and the last week a group's net position was larger on the same side.

The numbers behind the chart

How were the MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX positions split between long and short?Week of 20 October 2026, contracts
Long, short and spread positions of each group in MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures (MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE), week of 20 October 2026 (contracts; net is ours)
GroupLongShortSpreadNet
Leveraged funds8,97995,360277−86,381
Asset managers and institutional10,24747939+9,768
Dealers and intermediaries54,29612,48828+41,808
Other reportable traders1,6061,4311+175
Nonreportable (below the reporting level)58,72924,099n/a+34,630

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What were the net positions in MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures each week?104 weeks, newest first, since 29 October 2024
Open interest and net positions in MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures by week, newest first (contracts; net is ours)
WeekOpen interestLeveraged funds, netAsset managers and institutional, netDealers and intermediaries, netOther reportable traders, net
134,202−86,381+9,768+41,808+175
152,605−102,978+10,790+41,250−329
140,688−75,263+10,581+37,812−727
133,964−90,584+10,576+42,497−777
119,984−49,868+10,719+35,948−619
201,017−66,643+9,766+92,770+225
187,902−50,125+10,334+91,094−551
202,614−39,421+10,096+90,588−52
202,030−30,842+10,153+85,718−368
203,158−59,377+6,946+99,590+34
196,776−76,020+9,237+105,814−504
311,244−223,079+8,931+98,653−1,832
249,950−186,628+9,813+97,815−260
246,195−158,974+9,691+88,768−1,461
223,835−161,603+8,593+83,613−122
180,661−134,655+8,923+72,018−778
180,763−113,268+8,852+66,736−1,380
117,242−63,414+8,699+9,604+1,667
308,130−233,143+8,098+128,481+3,174
292,218−224,478+10,700+123,887+3,935
308,653−211,883+11,885+142,924+2,343
276,274−189,963+13,959+130,690+699
268,580−204,510+13,789+140,695+969
284,748−216,959+14,262+166,572+275
277,639−202,388+15,215+183,379+149
264,672−197,130+13,057+167,816−151
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WeekOpen interestLeveraged funds, netAsset managers and institutional, netDealers and intermediaries, netOther reportable traders, net
225,959−152,384+15,135+135,184−287
163,351−92,243+9,925+89,415−1,018
118,694−62,058+9,532+54,324−779
110,359−44,741+9,404+36,995+21
87,744−32,469+11,875+15,708−438
170,606−95,789+11,401+78,633−1,678
154,685−87,765+10,968+74,293−2,492
170,836−107,925+10,350+87,583−1,460
145,659−77,033+8,671+67,497−133
144,386−73,387+5,240+58,699+532
113,838−46,438+5,857+36,053+190
109,610−45,455+7,084+20,486+954
90,897+7,586+5,771−1,966+933
88,478−15,083+4,768−4,670+1,388
85,251+21,962+5,968−16,066+1,630
101,243+34,802+5,930−19,853+2,049
99,122+25,959+4,250−19,829+559
87,530+19,059+5,853−11,205+1,808
251,741−169,754+6,253+127,283+295
217,362−147,877+5,534+118,109−1,833
203,707−129,094+3,657+105,552−990
187,145−119,645+1,552+95,234−1,956
159,579−94,503+3,898+62,241−599
132,432−58,945+3,832+49,490−1,645
120,513−46,253+4,382+32,068−1,235
113,693−9,311+3,479+25,536−2,433
105,092−27,012+623+29,947−2,504
111,697−48,205+2,846+37,813−3,034
88,841−23,568+2,626+18,165−1,499
76,012−10,969+2,388+8,152−1,392
64,670+1,384+2,347+444−2,366
144,704−5,051+2,004+28,289−2,896
134,277−2,132+1,325+27,354−1,963
138,361+6,066−275+8,413−673
139,670+25,782+428−6,157−1,026
148,813−1,087−792+14,959−796
132,352+19,931+418+15,307−750
127,775−6,167+1,215+23,887−1,310
118,827+28,857+2,340−5,068−9,229
105,626+24,475+2,150−7,828−5,890
102,323+38,888−139−19,825−3,437
94,661+36,283−100−21,528−2,393
87,750+31,664−828−21,991−3,250
66,181+23,959−1,543−10,056−795
231,581−106,441−1,199−4,425+1,122
217,827−108,518+1,397+2,438−3,129
210,920−105,130+2,906+2−4,416
204,499−126,217+1,968+21,076−3,440
217,420−143,227−106+40,472−2,308
238,228−166,371+426+67,276−2,536
222,016−161,389+1,069+63,187−492
189,289−132,621+1,394+48,097+824
151,870−106,003+777+35,061+67
142,627−85,452+2,641+33,477−1,445
121,946−38,610+2,030+30,352+789
94,587−18,219+1,635+8,621−1,784
70,401+4,430+2,645+572−590
189,594−102,750+2,167+67,242−13,585
163,362−86,081+3,862+57,436−8,966
162,442−89,389+1,762+68,233−5,290
152,770−69,636+1,908+50,844−5,200
139,550−1,211+1,312+25,612−7,176
128,569−5,126+80+25,203−6,987
122,843+1,594+771+14,310−6,388
116,345−2,295+535+14,668−4,476
90,781−5,927+922+10,945−1,153
75,820−20,617−448+11,146+534
66,460−12,009−133+9,714+1,338
56,209−3,846+2,423+622+621
56,789+10,837+2,168+2,393+532
155,234−16,103+2,848+22,521−7,873
150,262−17,598+2,814+18,724−8,102
141,068−18,609+2,257+19,765−4,720
133,750−28,452+432+21,286−4,313
122,700−29,086+2,312+15,455−3,150
114,223−7,896+1,369+12,987−5,519
107,764−23,026+124+15,219−3,656
103,675−16,721+2,066+11,956−3,121

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What do these figures leave out, and how are they cited?Limits, dates and how to cite

What this number cannot tell you

  • Positions are those of the Tuesday the report is dated; the CFTC released the report on 23 October 2026.
  • A trader's group comes from the CFTC's own classification. Nonreportable positions are open interest less the reportable positions.
  • Net positions leave out spread positions, so a group's long and short do not account for all of its contracts.
  • Records and ranks are counted from the week of 4 August 2020, the start of this market's latest run of weekly reports. The CFTC can revise a week in a later report, and our collector keeps the earlier figure.
  • Contracts are not comparable between markets: the size of one is the CFTC's contract size above.
  • Market names are the CFTC's own, written as it writes them. 500metrics is independent and is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by any index provider, exchange or company named in them.

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How to cite this

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Commitments of Traders, Traders in Financial Futures report (futures only), MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE, week of 20 October 2026, released 23 October 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "What positions do traders hold in MICRO E-MINI NASDAQ-100 INDEX futures?", https://500metrics.com/futures-positions/nasdaq-100-micro-e-mini.

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