COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in 10-year Treasury futures: MICRO 10 YEAR YIELD - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: 10-year Tresasury 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 "MICRO 10 YEAR YIELD - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 1,389 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 1,277 on 21 July 2026.
Sample. There are 164 observations overall in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from April 2022 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded a bottom of 636 contracts on 2 September 2025; they peaked at 6,782 on 19 September 2023; they had a mean of 2,454.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-14 | 1235.0 |
| 2026-07-21 | 1277.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 1389.0 |
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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: MICRO 10 YEAR YIELD - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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