COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in 10-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 171,955 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 166,861 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 685 observations in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The time period covered by the series is from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had an average value of 210,150 contracts; they hit a peak of 505,231 on 26 July 2022; they recorded a minimum of 72,200 on 25 August 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 161277.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 166861.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 171955.0 |
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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: UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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