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 3,637,586 contracts on 17 February 2026, versus 3,627,624 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 685 observations overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The time period covered by the series extends from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions achieved a maximum of 4,117,355 contracts on 6 May 2025; they recorded a bottom of 198,977 on 25 June 2013; they had an average value of 1,453,346.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 3623676.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 3627624.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 3637586.0 |
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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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