COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers 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 asset managers in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 569,505 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 556,795 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly series shown in the graph has 683 observations overall. The series covers the time range going from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here are some statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of 67,354 contracts on 10 March 2015; they recorded a maximum of 712,143 contracts on 28 October 2025; they had an average value of 260,692 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 585,717 |
| 2026-01-27 | 556,795 |
| 2026-02-03 | 569,505 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers 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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