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" stood at 811,726 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 809,967 on 9 June.
Sample. This weekly time series has 702 observations in total. The series covers the period going from January 2013 to June 2026.
History. Take a look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 407,207 contracts; they hit a minimum 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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 782320.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 809967.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 811726.0 |
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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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