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 6,977,994 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 6,769,315 on 12 May.
Sample. The weekly time series presented in the figure has a total of 698 data points. The series covers the time range extending from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some summary statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 3,893,467 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 7,476,821 on 26 August 2025; they reached their minimum of 1,442,088 on 18 June 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 6620931.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 6769315.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 6977994.0 |
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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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