COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers 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 asset managers in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 1,206,430 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 1,157,613 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 data points in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 728,024 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 355,304 on 22 November 2016; they reached a maximum of 1,389,819 on 20 February 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 1034779.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 1157613.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 1206430.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers 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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