COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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 leveraged money managers in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 2,637,991 contracts on 13 October 2026, versus 2,668,638 on 6 October 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the graph, there are 719 data points overall. The period covered by the series goes from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Here are a few statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 1,516,973 contracts; they peaked at 4,117,355 contracts on 6 May 2025; they reached their lowest level of 198,977 contracts on 25 June 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 2,647,955 |
| 2026-10-06 | 2,668,638 |
| 2026-10-13 | 2,637,991 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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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