COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in 5-year Treasury futures: UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: 5-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 all reporting traders in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 6,584,272 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 6,475,587 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 data points in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series extends from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at a few statistics we computed on the full sample: positions attained a maximum of 7,175,734 contracts on 26 August 2025; they recorded a bottom of 1,142,544 contracts on 18 June 2013; they had a mean value of 3,478,330 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 6,454,489 |
| 2026-01-27 | 6,475,587 |
| 2026-02-03 | 6,584,272 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders in futures on 5-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 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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