COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 167,542 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 150,743 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 698 data points in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The period covered by the series goes from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions recorded their highest level of 235,794 contracts on 25 May 2021; they recorded a minimum of 102,972 on 28 March 2023; they had a mean of 155,552.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 155048.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 150743.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 167542.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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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