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" were 4,774,773 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 4,648,605 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 698 records overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time span going from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 2,245,489 contracts; they reached their minimum of 654,231 on 9 July 2013; they recorded their highest level of 4,774,773 on 19 May 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 4602674.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 4648605.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 4774773.0 |
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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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