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 678,430 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 661,802 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 698 observations in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time span stretching from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 404,981 contracts; they reached a maximum of 1,115,567 on 28 January 2025; they registered a minimum of 75,499 on 20 August 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 641015.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 661802.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 678430.0 |
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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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