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 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 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 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 683 data points overall. The period covered by the series goes from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 352,199 contracts; they registered a minimum of 206,455 on 8 April 2025; they reached their maximum of 606,036 on 23 November 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 294683.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 301559.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 312440.0 |
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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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