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" stood at 6,412,702 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 6,230,553 on 22 September.
Sample. In the weekly time series displayed in the plot, there are a total of 717 records. The time span covered by the series is from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a trough of 1,142,544 contracts on 18 June 2013; they achieved a maximum of 7,175,734 on 26 August 2025; they were equal on average to 3,607,355.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 5983884.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 6230553.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 6412702.0 |
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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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