COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: 2-year Treasury 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 2-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 282,647 contracts on 13 October 2026, compared to 263,862 on 6 October.
Sample. There are 719 records overall in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The time period covered by the series is from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their lowest level of 32,036 contracts on 5 January 2021; they peaked at 424,013 contracts on 17 May 2022; they averaged 176,379 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 255,473 |
| 2026-10-06 | 263,862 |
| 2026-10-13 | 282,647 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other reporting traders in futures on 2-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 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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