COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 127,027 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 113,959 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 717 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at some summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 54,034 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 153,117 on 2 July 2024; they recorded a bottom of 6,991 on 10 April 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 115998.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 113959.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 127027.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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