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 953,684 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 936,023 on 11 August.
Sample. This weekly series has 709 observations in total. The series covers the span of time stretching from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached a maximum of 1,019,958 contracts on 16 June 2026; they reached their minimum of 68,913 on 29 January 2013; they averaged 472,374.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 937344.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 936023.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 953684.0 |
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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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