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 6,225,955 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 6,064,187 on 11 August.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 711 data points. The series covers the time range extending from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions recorded their highest level of 7,175,734 contracts on 26 August 2025; they hit a minimum of 1,142,544 on 18 June 2013; they were equal on average to 3,585,533.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 6006282.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 6064187.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 6225955.0 |
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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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