COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 210,297 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 170,281 on 22 September.
Sample. In the weekly series shown in the chart, there are 717 data points overall. The series covers the period going from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 211,551 contracts; they hit a minimum of 80,752 on 27 February 2024; they recorded their maximum of 602,582 on 18 December 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 198539.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 170281.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 210297.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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