COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in 25+-year Treasury futures: ULTRA 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 25+-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 2,207,097 contracts on 13 October 2026, compared to 2,230,372 on 6 October 2026.
Sample. There are 717 data points in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series goes from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their lowest level of 295,434 contracts on 8 January 2013; they achieved a maximum of 2,728,049 contracts on 25 August 2026; they had an average value of 1,023,990 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 2,333,146 |
| 2026-10-06 | 2,230,372 |
| 2026-10-13 | 2,207,097 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders in futures on 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: "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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