COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers in 2-year Treasury futures: UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: 2-year Treasury 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 asset managers in 2-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 541,237 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 460,653 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 observations in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the time span going from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 423,502 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 104,841 contracts on 8 January 2013; they recorded their maximum of 924,038 contracts on 21 January 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 464,247 |
| 2026-01-27 | 460,653 |
| 2026-02-03 | 541,237 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers in futures on 2-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 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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