COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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 leveraged money managers in 10-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 2,695,299 contracts on 13 October 2026, compared to 2,650,396 on 6 October.
Sample. There are 719 records in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series is from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 1,073,616 contracts; they peaked at 3,033,973 contracts on 25 November 2025; they recorded a bottom of 152,889 contracts on 8 January 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 2,547,011 |
| 2026-10-06 | 2,650,396 |
| 2026-10-13 | 2,695,299 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money 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: "UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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