COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 6,510,131 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 6,569,294 on 24 March.
Sample. In the weekly series shown in the plot, there are a total of 691 records. The span of time covered by the series is from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 3,865,917 contracts; they peaked at 7,476,821 on 26 August 2025; they recorded a minimum of 1,442,088 on 18 June 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 6692876.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 6569294.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 6510131.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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