COT reports: Short positions held by all 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 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 25+-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 2,080,524 contracts on 17 February 2026, versus 2,009,538 on 10 February.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 683 data points. The period covered by the series is from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded their highest level of 2,145,759 contracts on 25 November 2025; they registered a minimum of 295,434 on 8 January 2013; they averaged 964,320.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 1998387.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 2009538.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 2080524.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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