COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in 25+-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 110,142 contracts on 13 October 2026, versus 110,211 on 6 October 2026.
Sample. There are 717 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time span extending from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions recorded their maximum of 374,435 contracts on 3 March 2026; they recorded a bottom of 30,251 contracts on 30 November 2021; they had a mean of 121,449 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 122,158 |
| 2026-10-06 | 110,211 |
| 2026-10-13 | 110,142 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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