COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by asset managers 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 Tresasury 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), compensated (spread) positions held by asset managers in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 265,050 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 219,555 on 12 May.
Sample. In the weekly time series presented in the plot, there are 698 observations in total. The series covers the time period extending from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 160,429 contracts; they reached their minimum of 41,836 on 31 March 2015; they hit a peak of 331,417 on 26 August 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 220911.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 219555.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 265050.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by asset managers 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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