COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures: UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Long-term Treasury 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 all reporting traders in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 1,682,926 contracts on 13 October 2026, versus 1,734,132 on 6 October.
Sample. In the weekly time series plotted above, there are 719 records. The time period covered by the series goes from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had a mean of 923,073 contracts; they hit a minimum of 255,313 contracts on 10 March 2015; they recorded their maximum of 2,098,055 contracts on 26 August 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 1,716,253 |
| 2026-10-06 | 1,734,132 |
| 2026-10-13 | 1,682,926 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders in futures on 15-25-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 BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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