COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by asset managers in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 609,578 contracts on 16 June 2026, versus 648,254 on 9 June.
Sample. There are 702 records in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The time period covered by the series extends from January 2013 to June 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 270,404 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 67,354 on 10 March 2015; they peaked at 712,143 on 28 October 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 620510.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 648254.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 609578.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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