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COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by asset managers in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly

Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), compensated (spread) positions held by asset managers in 2-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 498,327 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 524,286 on 12 May.

Sample. There are 698 data points overall in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2013 to May 2026.

History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached their minimum of 47,839 contracts on 18 June 2013; they peaked at 610,493 on 6 May 2025; they were equal on average to 255,386.

Latest values

Date Value - Number of contracts
2026-05-05 488618.0
2026-05-12 524286.0
2026-05-19 498327.0

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Series Metadata

Field Value
Description Compensated (spread) positions held by asset managers 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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2-year notes

Series Name Observations Start Date End Date
COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by dealers in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Short positions held by dealers in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Net long positions held by dealers in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by dealers in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by asset managers in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Net long positions held by asset managers in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by asset managers in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by leveraged money managers in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money managers in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Net long positions held by leveraged money managers in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by leveraged money managers in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long 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 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
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 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Net long 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 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by all reporting traders in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by non-reporting traders in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19
COT reports: Net long positions held by non-reporting traders in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 698 2013-01-08 2026-05-19