COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in 5-year Treasury futures: UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: 5-year Treasury 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 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 6,489,199 contracts on 13 October 2026, versus 6,360,924 on 6 October 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the figure, there are 719 data points overall. The time range covered by the series is from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 3,615,193 contracts; they hit a peak of 7,175,734 contracts on 26 August 2025; they reached a minimum of 1,142,544 contracts on 18 June 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 6,412,702 |
| 2026-10-06 | 6,360,924 |
| 2026-10-13 | 6,489,199 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders in futures on 5-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 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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