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 28,532 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 28,508 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 689 records in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The time span covered by the series is from January 2013 to March 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 22,495 contracts; they reached their minimum of 0 on 26 February 2019; they reached their maximum of 140,834 on 24 June 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 28406.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 28508.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 28532.0 |
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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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