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 140,292 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 140,430 on 24 March.
Sample. The weekly time series shown in the plot has a total of 691 observations. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions recorded a minimum of 102,972 contracts on 28 March 2023; they achieved a maximum of 235,794 on 25 May 2021; they had an average value of 155,676.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 134360.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 140430.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 140292.0 |
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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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