COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 1,059,851 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 1,029,321 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 717 observations overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 418,453 contracts; they reached a trough of 75,499 on 20 August 2013; they hit a peak of 1,115,567 on 28 January 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 954091.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 1029321.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 1059851.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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