COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in 25+-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 37,158 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 35,065 on 22 September.
Sample. This weekly series has 715 records overall. The series covers the time span stretching from January 2013 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded a maximum of 140,834 contracts on 24 June 2025; they recorded a minimum of 0 on 26 February 2019; they averaged 22,927.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 31425.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 35065.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 37158.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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