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 958,902 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 935,529 on 11 August.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 711 data points. The series covers the span of time stretching from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at some statistics calculated on the full sample: positions recorded their highest level of 1,115,567 contracts on 28 January 2025; they reached their lowest level of 75,499 on 20 August 2013; they averaged 413,670.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 918984.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 935529.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 958902.0 |
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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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