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
This series is part of the dataset: 2-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 all reporting traders in 2-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 4,258,542 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 4,210,444 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 711 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The time span covered by the series is from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 2,282,590 contracts; they reached a maximum of 4,774,773 on 19 May 2026; they recorded a bottom of 654,231 on 9 July 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 4226867.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 4210444.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 4258542.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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