COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 312,440 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 301,559 on 27 January.
Sample. There are 683 data points overall in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The time span covered by the series is from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 352,199 contracts; they reached a minimum of 206,455 contracts on 8 April 2025; they recorded a maximum of 606,036 contracts on 23 November 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 294,683 |
| 2026-01-27 | 301,559 |
| 2026-02-03 | 312,440 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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