COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 908,042 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 906,801 on 27 January.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 683 records in total. The period covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here are some statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged 397,843 contracts; they achieved a maximum of 1,115,567 contracts on 28 January 2025; they recorded a bottom of 75,499 contracts on 20 August 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 814,926 |
| 2026-01-27 | 906,801 |
| 2026-02-03 | 908,042 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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