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 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 other reporting traders in 2-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 225,327 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 225,609 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 698 observations overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time span going from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics computed on the full sample: positions recorded their maximum of 424,013 contracts on 17 May 2022; they reached their lowest level of 32,036 on 5 January 2021; they averaged 175,041.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 223527.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 225609.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 225327.0 |
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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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