COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers 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 asset managers in 25+-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 404,583 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 410,018 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 689 records in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time span going from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 172,346 contracts; they achieved a maximum of 612,479 on 15 July 2025; they registered a minimum of 9,458 on 24 September 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 407037.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 410018.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 404583.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers 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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