COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures: UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Long-term 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 all reporting traders in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 1,587,263 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 1,710,503 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 data points in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded a bottom of 255,313 contracts on 10 March 2015; they achieved a maximum of 2,098,055 contracts on 26 August 2025; they were equal on average to 881,117 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 1,702,023 |
| 2026-01-27 | 1,710,503 |
| 2026-02-03 | 1,587,263 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders in futures on 15-25-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 BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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