COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 133,039 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 144,122 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series displayed in the graph, there are 683 data points. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Have a look at some statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 213,472 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 602,582 contracts on 18 December 2018; they recorded a bottom of 80,752 contracts on 27 February 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 142,300 |
| 2026-01-27 | 144,122 |
| 2026-02-03 | 133,039 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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