COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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 leveraged money managers in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 3,623,676 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 3,571,183 on 27 January.
Sample. There are 683 records in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The time span covered by the series is from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their maximum of 4,117,355 contracts on 6 May 2025; they hit a trough of 198,977 contracts on 25 June 2013; they had a mean value of 1,446,964 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 3,675,546 |
| 2026-01-27 | 3,571,183 |
| 2026-02-03 | 3,623,676 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money managers 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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