COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money 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 leveraged money managers in 2-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 2,633,663 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 2,637,138 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 data points in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a trough of 108,306 contracts on 24 September 2013; they hit a maximum of 3,047,509 contracts on 12 November 2024; they averaged 1,006,096 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 2,648,498 |
| 2026-01-27 | 2,637,138 |
| 2026-02-03 | 2,633,663 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money 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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