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 2,853,388 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 2,855,097 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 698 observations overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The series covers the time span extending from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here are some summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 1,484,423 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 4,117,355 on 6 May 2025; they reached a trough of 198,977 on 25 June 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 2864067.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 2855097.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 2853388.0 |
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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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