COT reports: Short positions held by asset 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 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 asset managers in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 780,990 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 704,726 on 27 January.
Sample. There are 683 data points in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The time span covered by the series goes from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded a bottom of 355,304 contracts on 22 November 2016; they achieved a maximum of 1,389,819 on 20 February 2024; they were equal on average to 712,813.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 703943.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 704726.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 780990.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset 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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