COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 148,746 contracts on 13 October 2026, compared to 138,113 on 6 October.
Sample. There are 719 observations overall in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The time span covered by the series is from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached their lowest level of 6,991 contracts on 10 April 2018; they hit a peak of 153,117 contracts on 2 July 2024; they had a mean of 54,282 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 127,027 |
| 2026-10-06 | 138,113 |
| 2026-10-13 | 148,746 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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