COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in 25+-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 330,455 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 328,884 on 24 March.
Sample. There are 689 observations in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The time range covered by the series extends from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 116,612 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 30,251 on 30 November 2021; they peaked at 374,435 on 3 March 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 312071.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 328884.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 330455.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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