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 584,170 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 619,771 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 698 observations in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The time range covered by the series goes from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions reached their highest level of 712,143 contracts on 28 October 2025; they hit a trough of 67,354 on 10 March 2015; they averaged 268,410.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 634957.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 619771.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 584170.0 |
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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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