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 308,058 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 266,816 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 711 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The series covers the time range extending from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at a few statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 117,310 contracts; they registered a minimum of 14,227 on 14 March 2017; they attained a maximum of 365,098 on 23 June 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 265910.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 266816.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 308058.0 |
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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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