COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money 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 leveraged money managers in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 3,068,127 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 3,089,685 on 24 March.
Sample. There are 691 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The time period covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions recorded a minimum of 198,977 contracts on 25 June 2013; they reached a maximum of 4,117,355 on 6 May 2025; they averaged 1,469,984.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 3395243.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 3089685.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 3068127.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money 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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