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" stood at 6,604,060 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 6,442,950 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 711 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The series covers the time span stretching from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 3,937,880 contracts; they attained a maximum of 7,476,821 on 26 August 2025; they registered a minimum of 1,442,088 on 18 June 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 6380428.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 6442950.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 6604060.0 |
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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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