COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money managers in 10-year Treasury futures: ULTRA UST 10Y - 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 leveraged money managers in 10-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST 10Y - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 458,963 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 432,183 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 531 data points in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time span stretching from March 2016 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 254,672 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 0 on 19 April 2016; they peaked at 717,952 on 2 December 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 431990.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 432183.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 458963.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money 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: ULTRA UST 10Y - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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