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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

Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), total open positions (open interest) in 2-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 4,432,451 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 4,377,812 on 11 August.

Sample. In the weekly series presented in the plot, there are 711 records in total. The series covers the period going from January 2013 to August 2026.

History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 2,424,679 contracts; they hit a trough of 760,802 on 31 December 2013; they peaked at 4,960,871 on 26 May 2026.

Latest values

Date Value - Number of contracts
2026-08-04 4400315.0
2026-08-11 4377812.0
2026-08-18 4432451.0

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Series Metadata

Field Value
Description Total open positions (open interest) 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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18
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 711 2013-01-08 2026-08-18