COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 249,827 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 280,732 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 698 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The time period covered by the series is from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached a maximum of 315,853 contracts on 9 September 2025; they reached their minimum of 14,227 on 14 March 2017; they had a mean value of 113,916.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 261291.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 280732.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 249827.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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