COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in 10-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST 10Y - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 157,384 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 149,397 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 544 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The series covers the span of time extending from March 2016 to August 2026.
History. Here are some summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 57,941 contracts; they reached a maximum of 176,095 on 17 June 2025; they hit a trough of 0 on 13 September 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 145550.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 149397.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 157384.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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: ULTRA UST 10Y - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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