COT reports: Short positions held by all 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 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 1,717,911 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 1,634,173 on 10 February.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 685 observations. The series covers the time span stretching from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 883,438 contracts; they reached their highest level of 2,098,055 on 26 August 2025; they reached a minimum of 255,313 on 10 March 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 1587263.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 1634173.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 1717911.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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