Dow Jones Industrial Avg- x $5
Weekly CFTC positioning for Dow Jones Industrial Avg- x $5 on Chicago Board Of Trade: the Traders in Financial Futures report (leveraged funds, asset managers, dealers), futures only.
In the 2026-09-29 report, leveraged funds were net short 5,456 contracts in Dow Jones Industrial Avg- x $5 while asset managers were net long 14,935, so the two camps are positioned against each other. The COT Index sits at 73%, the middle of its one-year range. Week over week, leveraged funds cut 1,347 net contracts.
-5,456
Leveraged funds, net
contracts
14,935
Asset managers, net
contracts
88,098
Open interest
contracts
73%
COT index, 1 year
mid range
As of 2026-09-29. Positions as of the Tuesday report date; published by the CFTC on Friday.
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Recent Reports
| Date | OI | Leveraged funds, net | Asset managers, net |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 88,098 | -5,456 | 14,935 |
| 2026-09-22 | 88,087 | -4,109 | 14,217 |
| 2026-09-15 | 101,191 | -2,437 | 7,934 |
| 2026-09-08 | 89,114 | -4,259 | 8,591 |
| 2026-09-01 | 86,927 | -1,731 | 5,527 |
| 2026-08-25 | 88,454 | -1,635 | 5,512 |
| 2026-08-18 | 90,072 | 2,035 | 2,461 |
| 2026-08-11 | 89,844 | -1,207 | 8,029 |
| 2026-08-04 | 91,653 | -3,113 | 8,603 |
| 2026-07-28 | 83,013 | -1,194 | 6,165 |
| 2026-07-21 | 82,002 | -3,451 | 4,991 |
| 2026-07-14 | 76,483 | -2,778 | 5,613 |
What the latest data says
As of 29 September 2026, leveraged funds net position in Dow Jones Industrial Avg- x $5 is net short 5,456 contracts, down 3,725 contracts over the last four weeks. Over the last 52 readings it ranged from -25,427 contracts (25 November 2025) to 2,035 contracts (18 August 2026).
What this data is
CFTC positioning (COT) for Dow Jones Industrial Avg- x $5
Every Friday at 3:30 pm Eastern the CFTC publishes who held what in US futures markets as of the previous Tuesday. Large traders are grouped by what they do, not who they are, and the report shows each group's long, short and spread positions. That's the Commitments of Traders report, published weekly for futures on currencies, rates, equity indices, energy, metals and agriculture.
Financial futures use the Traders in Financial Futures format: dealers and intermediaries, asset managers and institutional investors, leveraged funds, and other reportables. Commodities use the disaggregated format: producers, merchants, processors and users; swap dealers; managed money; and other reportables. Positions too small to report are shown as nonreportable in both.
This page follows Dow Jones Industrial Avg- x $5 only. The full list and the cross-market view live on the CFTC positioning (COT) hub.
Source and updates
- Source
- CFTC Commitments of Traders (Traders in Financial Futures and Disaggregated reports)
- Credit
- CFTC.
- Updates
- Weekly. Positions as of Tuesday, published by the CFTC on Friday at 3:30 pm Eastern and added here the same evening. Latest report 2026-09-29.
- History
- 20 July 2010.
- This series
- 845 weekly reports on file, 2010-07-20 to 2026-09-29.Traders in Financial Futures format, futures only, Chicago Board Of Trade.
- Get the data
- JSON API and CSV download10 requests a minute without a key, 30 with a free key from a free account.
How to read it
- Look at the net position of the speculative category (leveraged funds or managed money) relative to its own history, not its absolute size.
- When speculators and the structural side (asset managers or producers) sit at opposite ends of their own ranges, the two groups are positioned against each other.
- Open interest is the denominator. A net long that grew while open interest shrank is a crowd getting smaller, not more confident.
Analysis of what the data shows, not advice. XOOMAR does not recommend buying, selling or holding anything.
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