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" stood at 523,293 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 456,146 on 12 May.
Sample. In the weekly time series shown in the graph, there are 696 data points overall. The series covers the time span going from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at some simple statistics computed on the full sample: positions achieved a maximum of 612,479 contracts on 15 July 2025; they hit a trough of 9,458 on 24 September 2013; they had a mean of 174,980.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 435287.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 456146.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 523293.0 |
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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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