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" stood at 2,549,211 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 2,558,719 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 711 data points overall in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The series covers the span of time extending from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached a trough of 198,977 contracts on 25 June 2013; they reached their maximum of 4,117,355 on 6 May 2025; they had a mean value of 1,504,797.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 2566661.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 2558719.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 2549211.0 |
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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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