COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in 10-year Treasury futures: UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: 10-year Treasury notes 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 all reporting traders in 10-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 5,436,035 contracts on 13 October 2026, compared to 5,342,885 on 6 October 2026.
Sample. There are 719 records overall in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time range going from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Have a look at a few statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 3,270,473 contracts; they hit a minimum of 1,349,302 contracts on 8 January 2013; they reached a maximum of 5,831,142 contracts on 26 May 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 5,279,879 |
| 2026-10-06 | 5,342,885 |
| 2026-10-13 | 5,436,035 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders in futures on 10-year Treasury notes |
| 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: "UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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