COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in 10-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 679,773 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 637,196 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 711 observations in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the period extending from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their highest level of 717,119 contracts on 15 April 2025; they reached their lowest level of 82,835 on 25 March 2014; they had an average value of 290,069.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 586949.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 637196.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 679773.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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