COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 5,854,005 contracts on 16 June 2026, versus 5,782,830 on 9 June.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 702 records in total. The series covers the period going from January 2013 to June 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions hit a minimum of 1,142,544 contracts on 18 June 2013; they recorded a maximum of 7,175,734 on 26 August 2025; they had an average value of 3,555,578.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 5900733.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 5782830.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 5854005.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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