COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 353,718 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 401,858 on 9 June.
Sample. There are 702 records overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time period going from January 2013 to June 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions achieved a maximum of 606,036 contracts on 23 November 2021; they recorded a bottom of 206,455 on 8 April 2025; they had a mean of 352,090.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 401596.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 401858.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 353718.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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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