COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders 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 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 "ULTRA UST 10Y - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 2,043,632 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 2,054,531 on 24 March.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 524 records. The time span covered by the series goes from March 2016 to March 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions hit a peak of 2,401,519 contracts on 26 August 2025; they hit a trough of 47,487 on 12 April 2016; they had a mean of 1,035,417.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 2067626.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 2054531.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 2043632.0 |
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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: ULTRA UST 10Y - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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