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
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 asset managers in 2-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 720,403 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 634,416 on 22 September.
Sample. The weekly time series presented in the graph has 717 observations in total. The time range covered by the series is from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their maximum of 924,038 contracts on 21 January 2020; they reached their lowest level of 104,841 on 8 January 2013; they had a mean value of 431,081.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 621685.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 634416.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 720403.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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