COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 222,819 contracts on 13 October 2026, versus 237,552 on 6 October 2026.
Sample. There are 719 data points overall in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The series covers the period extending from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 118,934 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 14,227 contracts on 14 March 2017; they recorded their highest level of 365,098 contracts on 23 June 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 221,913 |
| 2026-10-06 | 237,552 |
| 2026-10-13 | 222,819 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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