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" stood at 5,180,111 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 5,062,572 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 711 data points in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 3,248,821 contracts; they hit a trough of 1,349,302 on 8 January 2013; they achieved a maximum of 5,831,142 on 26 May 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 4857798.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 5062572.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 5180111.0 |
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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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