COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 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 dealers in 2-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 2Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 520,924 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 509,723 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 records in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the span of time extending from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 220,978 contracts; they hit a trough of 41,094 on 31 December 2013; they recorded their maximum of 554,901 on 30 September 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 466973.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 509723.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 520924.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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