COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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 Tresasury 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), compensated (spread) positions held by dealers in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 158,673 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 126,792 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 698 observations in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time span going from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 34,740 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 2,809 on 6 September 2022; they recorded a maximum of 224,844 on 26 August 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 108440.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 126792.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 158673.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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