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 1,025,965 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 1,063,537 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 711 observations overall in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time range extending from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here are some statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of 355,304 contracts on 22 November 2016; they reached their highest level of 1,389,819 on 20 February 2024; they were equal on average to 725,033.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 1089874.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 1063537.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 1025965.0 |
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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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