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Are Profitable Traders Long? | NQ
Nasdaq futures sentiment from the traders who are up overall. One answer, every 15 minutes: which way they are leaning in NQ and MNQ, and how hard.
Right now
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Every 15 minutes · last 24 hours
How to read it
- The statement is the answer: which side profitable traders hold more of right now.
- Long share is how much of their open position is long. 50% is even.
- Net lean runs from −100 (everyone short) to +100 (everyone long). The bars on the chart are this number every 15 minutes.
- Hover a bar to see the lean and the NQ price at that moment.
Who counts as profitable
- Traders who are up overall across everything they have traded with us. Not just up today.
- We count contracts, not people. A micro (MNQ) counts as a tenth of a mini (NQ).
- We publish the split and the lean, never the number of contracts.
- Price is the front-month NQ contract, 15-minute closes, Eastern time.
How to use it
1 · Check the side
Before you enter, see which way the traders who are up overall are leaning. If you are on the other side, know that going in.
2 · Watch the bars change
A run of growing bars means conviction is building. Bars shrinking toward zero means they are backing off. A colour flip is the moment they switched sides.
3 · Use it as confluence
Line it up with your own read. This is positioning data, not a signal to follow blindly and not trade advice.
FAQs
Nasdaq futures sentiment from profitable traders, and how to read it.
Are profitable traders long or short Nasdaq futures today?
The statement at the top of this page answers it. It shows which side the traders who are up overall hold more of in Nasdaq-100 futures (NQ and MNQ) right now, and the chart shows how that lean has moved through the session in 15-minute steps.
What is this Nasdaq futures sentiment reading based on?
Open positions, not surveys or social posts. We look at the contracts that lifetime-profitable traders at MyFundedFutures are holding in NQ and MNQ and report how much of that position is long versus short. A micro (MNQ) counts as a tenth of a mini (NQ).
How is this different from the COT report?
The CFTC Commitments of Traders report is weekly. It reflects positions as of Tuesday and is published on Friday, grouped by trader category. This page updates every 15 minutes during the session and splits traders by one thing only: whether they are up overall across everything they have traded with us.
What is the long/short ratio on this page?
We show it two ways. Long share is the percentage of the group’s open NQ position that is long, where 50% is even. Net lean runs from −100 (everyone short) to +100 (everyone long). Both are shares of contracts, never the number of contracts.
Who counts as a profitable trader?
Traders who are up overall across everything they have traded with us, not just up today. A trader who had a good morning but is down over their history is not in the group.
Can I trade directly off this?
Treat it as one input among many. The page never says buy or sell, past positioning does not predict future results, and nothing here is trade advice.
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