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" stood at 314,116 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 302,171 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 685 data points overall in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time span going from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here are some summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a minimum of 206,455 contracts on 8 April 2025; they recorded their maximum of 606,036 on 23 November 2021; they averaged 352,070.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 312440.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 302171.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 314116.0 |
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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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