COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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 leveraged money managers in 25+-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 894,258 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 924,613 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 715 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time span stretching from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 476,219 contracts; they reached a maximum of 1,019,958 on 16 June 2026; they hit a trough of 68,913 on 29 January 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 907923.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 924613.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 894258.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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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