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" stood at 106,223 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 117,725 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 711 observations in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series extends from January 2013 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions averaged 53,507 contracts; they hit a minimum of 6,991 on 10 April 2018; they recorded their highest level of 153,117 on 2 July 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 117699.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 117725.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 106223.0 |
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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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