COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money managers in 10-year Treasury futures: UST 10Y NOTE - 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 "UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 2,456,455 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 2,507,898 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 1,002,660 contracts; they reached their minimum of 152,889 on 8 January 2013; they peaked at 3,033,973 on 25 November 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 2647983.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 2507898.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 2456455.0 |
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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: UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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