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 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 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, versus 3,571,183 on 27 January.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the plot, there are 683 data points overall. The series covers the period going from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged 1,446,964 contracts; they reached a minimum of 198,977 on 25 June 2013; they hit a maximum of 4,117,355 on 6 May 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 3675546.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 3571183.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 3623676.0 |
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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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