COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in 10-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 338,163 contracts on 13 October 2026, compared to 307,808 on 6 October.
Sample. There are 719 observations in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The time range covered by the series is from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 210,069 contracts; they reached their minimum of 72,200 contracts on 25 August 2020; they hit a peak of 505,231 contracts on 26 July 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 315,176 |
| 2026-10-06 | 307,808 |
| 2026-10-13 | 338,163 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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