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 Tresasury 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.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 683 data points. The series covers the span of time going from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here are a few simple statistics computed on the full sample: positions hit a maximum of 7,175,734 contracts on 26 August 2025; they reached their minimum of 1,142,544 on 18 June 2013; they had an average value of 3,478,330.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 6454489.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 6475587.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 6584272.0 |
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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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