COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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 leveraged money managers in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 410,869 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 363,086 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 717 records in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time range going from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 273,929 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 38,521 on 22 March 2016; they achieved a maximum of 836,820 on 19 November 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 415416.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 363086.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 410869.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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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