COT reports: Net long 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 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), net long positions held by other reporting traders in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 43,235 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 60,358 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 711 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The period covered by the series is from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions hit a minimum of -355,075 contracts on 18 December 2018; they reached their maximum of 766,229 on 24 June 2025; they had an average value of 103,454.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 45663.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 60358.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 43235.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long 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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