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 731,476 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 662,733 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 715 observations in total. The time range covered by the series extends from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 185,528 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 9,458 on 24 September 2013; they attained a maximum of 731,476 on 29 September 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 673522.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 662733.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 731476.0 |
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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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