COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 253,258 contracts on 13 October 2026, compared to 216,094 on 6 October 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has a total of 719 records. The time range covered by the series extends from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions peaked at 602,582 contracts on 18 December 2018; they reached their lowest level of 80,752 contracts on 27 February 2024; they had a mean of 211,616 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 210,297 |
| 2026-10-06 | 216,094 |
| 2026-10-13 | 253,258 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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