COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers in 10-year Treasury futures: ULTRA UST 10Y - 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 asset managers in 10-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST 10Y - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 544,581 contracts on 13 October 2026, compared to 505,517 on 6 October.
Sample. There are 552 observations in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the period stretching from March 2016 to October 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions recorded their highest level of 840,382 contracts on 11 March 2025; they hit a trough of 33,194 contracts on 8 March 2016; they were equal on average to 431,159 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 554,413 |
| 2026-10-06 | 505,517 |
| 2026-10-13 | 544,581 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers 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: "ULTRA UST 10Y - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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