COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers 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 asset managers in 10-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 924,224 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 1,039,789 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 698 data points in the weekly time series shown in the chart above. The time period covered by the series is from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 962,356 contracts; they hit a minimum of 574,719 on 30 July 2019; they reached their maximum of 1,597,728 on 1 June 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 1013088.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 1039789.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 924224.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers 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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