COT reports: Short positions held by all 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 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 "UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 5,464,271 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 5,493,478 on 12 May.
Sample. In the weekly time series displayed in the plot, there are a total of 698 records. The time period covered by the series extends from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 3,216,012 contracts; they hit a peak of 5,666,037 on 25 November 2025; they recorded a minimum of 1,349,302 on 8 January 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 5018279.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 5493478.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 5464271.0 |
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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: UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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