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" were 448,805 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 429,942 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 698 observations overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the period stretching from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a trough of 38,521 contracts on 22 March 2016; they peaked at 836,820 on 19 November 2024; they had an average value of 268,631.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 405554.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 429942.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 448805.0 |
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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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