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 768,057 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 736,189 on 11 August.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the chart has 711 data points. The series covers the time span going from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded their highest level of 1,597,728 contracts on 1 June 2021; they recorded a minimum of 574,719 on 30 July 2019; they had an average value of 959,730.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 723764.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 736189.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 768057.0 |
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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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