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 160,861 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 144,605 on 24 March.
Sample. There are 691 observations overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time period going from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 212,814 contracts; they reached a minimum of 80,752 on 27 February 2024; they hit a peak of 602,582 on 18 December 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 149102.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 144605.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 160861.0 |
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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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