COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 1,000,211 contracts on 13 October 2026, versus 919,320 on 6 October 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series plotted above has 719 data points in total. The period covered by the series is from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions registered a minimum of 75,499 contracts on 20 August 2013; they achieved a maximum of 1,115,567 contracts on 28 January 2025; they had a mean of 419,958 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 1,059,851 |
| 2026-10-06 | 919,320 |
| 2026-10-13 | 1,000,211 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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