COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers 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 asset managers in 25+-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 757,921 contracts on 13 October 2026, compared to 752,102 on 6 October.
Sample. The weekly time series presented in the chart has a total of 717 observations. The span of time covered by the series is from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 187,116 contracts; they reached a trough of 9,458 contracts on 24 September 2013; they hit a peak of 757,921 contracts on 13 October 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 731,476 |
| 2026-10-06 | 752,102 |
| 2026-10-13 | 757,921 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers 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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