CFTC commitment of traders
Positioning
The CFTC publishes every Friday how many contracts each category of trader holds and is short in every listed futures market, describing positions as of the preceding Tuesday. The net figures below are the non-commercial and commercial long minus short, exactly as the CFTC released them — they are the recorded positions of one group of participants, not a measure of what the market “believes”.
There is no commitment of traders report for a single stock. Single-stock futures exist and their volume is negligible, so this page describes markets and index futures rather than the holders of any company on this site. It therefore appears here and on the market pages, never attached to an instrument.
Equity index futures
E-mini S&P 500
The largest futures contract on the S&P 500, so the widest read on positioning across the US large-cap market.
-133,228
non-commercial net, contracts
-32767% on the week
- Open interest
- 1,890,653
- Commercial net
- 28,880
- Where this sits
- 44th percentile
- History
- 53 weeks
Positions as of 2026-09-22published 2026-09-25
Nasdaq-100
Positioning in the largest 100 Nasdaq-listed companies, the technology-heavy end of the US market.
52,346
non-commercial net, contracts
+19777% on the week
- Open interest
- 298,319
- Commercial net
- -62,340
- Where this sits
- 99th percentile
- History
- 53 weeks
Positions as of 2026-09-22published 2026-09-25
Russell 2000
Positioning in US small caps, the segment that moves most differently from the large-cap index.
-75,783
non-commercial net, contracts
-3433% on the week
- Open interest
- 415,047
- Commercial net
- 68,390
- Where this sits
- 3rd percentile
- History
- 53 weeks
Positions as of 2026-09-22published 2026-09-25
Nikkei 225 (yen)
Positions in the Nikkei 225, the index futures arm of the Asian listing this site covers. Quoted in yen and traded in Chicago, which is the only reason a CFTC report carries it at all.
1,545
non-commercial net, contracts
-1079% on the week
- Open interest
- 21,974
- Commercial net
- 4,606
- Where this sits
- 5th percentile
- History
- 53 weeks
Positions as of 2026-09-22published 2026-09-25
Currencies
British pound
Positions in sterling, the second-largest traded currency pair after the euro.
-82,568
non-commercial net, contracts
-23853% on the week
- Open interest
- 244,925
- Commercial net
- 87,680
- Where this sits
- 10th percentile
- History
- 53 weeks
Positions as of 2026-09-22published 2026-09-25
Japanese yen
Positions in the yen, and through the carry trade the dominant funding currency of the whole market.
71,982
non-commercial net, contracts
-48377% on the week
- Open interest
- 378,701
- Commercial net
- -76,414
- Where this sits
- 95th percentile
- History
- 53 weeks
Positions as of 2026-09-22published 2026-09-25
Euro FX
Positions in the euro against the dollar, the currency pair that carries most of the euro area's external risk.
-52,334
non-commercial net, contracts
-25341% on the week
- Open interest
- 821,689
- Commercial net
- 28,967
- Where this sits
- 8th percentile
- History
- 53 weeks
Positions as of 2026-09-22published 2026-09-25
Australian dollar
Positions in the Australian dollar, a proxy for risk appetite in the commodity economies.
-46,814
non-commercial net, contracts
-7908% on the week
- Open interest
- 306,488
- Commercial net
- 27,160
- Where this sits
- 24th percentile
- History
- 53 weeks
Positions as of 2026-09-22published 2026-09-25
Commodities
Wheat
Positions in soft red winter wheat, one of the two grains large enough to carry its own market.
-7,360
non-commercial net, contracts
-8588% on the week
- Open interest
- 483,279
- Commercial net
- 2,978
- Where this sits
- 84th percentile
- History
- 53 weeks
Positions as of 2026-09-22published 2026-09-25
Corn
Positions in corn, the other of the two US grain contracts with a deep futures market.
535,801
non-commercial net, contracts
-6583% on the week
- Open interest
- 1,854,505
- Commercial net
- -474,811
- Where this sits
- 93rd percentile
- History
- 53 weeks
Positions as of 2026-09-22published 2026-09-25
Crude oil (WTI)
Positions in West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark for the price of energy in the US economy.
-6,548
non-commercial net, contracts
+11297% on the week
- Open interest
- 734,302
- Commercial net
- 4,538
- Where this sits
- 35th percentile
- History
- 53 weeks
Positions as of 2026-09-22published 2026-09-25
Silver
Positions in silver, the more industrial half of the precious metals.
25,444
non-commercial net, contracts
+118% on the week
- Open interest
- 106,474
- Commercial net
- -44,754
- Where this sits
- 56th percentile
- History
- 53 weeks
Positions as of 2026-09-22published 2026-09-25
Copper
Positions in copper, the metal whose cycle tracks industrial demand most closely of any listed contract.
90,522
non-commercial net, contracts
+15388% on the week
- Open interest
- 301,657
- Commercial net
- -100,435
- Where this sits
- 97th percentile
- History
- 53 weeks
Positions as of 2026-09-22published 2026-09-25
Gold
Positions in gold, the instrument held as a hedge rather than as a directional bet.
225,853
non-commercial net, contracts
-4485% on the week
- Open interest
- 412,800
- Commercial net
- -262,903
- Where this sits
- 75th percentile
- History
- 53 weeks
Positions as of 2026-09-22published 2026-09-25
What is not here
Three contracts a list like this would usually name are absent, because the legacy futures-only report publishes no row for them: the E-mini Dow, the US Dollar Index and the 10-year Treasury note. Treasury futures appear in the Traders in Financial Futures report instead, which categorises its participants differently and is not mixed into these numbers.
The euro area and Asia-Pacific are represented by their currency futures and, for Japan, by the dollar-denominated Nikkei contract traded in Chicago. Index futures on the EEX and the SGX are outside the CFTC’s jurisdiction entirely, so no CFTC number describes them.
The report is the legacy futures-only release. The disaggregated and Traders in Financial Futures reports carry finer trader categories, but only for commodities and financial contracts — the equity index futures a market site needs most are absent from them.
Source: the CFTC public reporting portal, read once a week and stored without alteration. 14 contracts are configured; every row on this page came from that read.
The method page explains how every figure on this site is computed and what each one is allowed to claim.