COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in 25+-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 201,743 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 193,567 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 696 data points in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The period covered by the series goes from January 2013 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached a trough of 53,306 contracts on 14 May 2013; they reached their highest level of 304,865 on 26 November 2024; they had an average value of 116,320.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 188912.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 193567.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 201743.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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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