COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money managers in 10-year Treasury futures: ULTRA UST 10Y - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: 10-year 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 leveraged money managers in 10-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST 10Y - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 553,938 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 580,793 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series displayed in the graph has a total of 516 observations. The series covers the time period stretching from March 2016 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had a mean of 249,508 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 717,952 on 2 December 2025; they reached a minimum of 0 on 19 April 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 605943.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 580793.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 553938.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money managers in futures on 10-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 10Y - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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