COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in 25+-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 45,018 contracts on 13 October 2026, versus 41,245 on 6 October.
Sample. There are 717 data points in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to October 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions hit a minimum of 0 contracts on 26 February 2019; they reached a maximum of 140,834 contracts on 24 June 2025; they had a mean value of 22,983 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 37,158.0 |
| 2026-10-06 | 41,245.0 |
| 2026-10-13 | 45,018.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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