COT reports: Short positions held by dealers 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 dealers in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 169,933 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 219,571 on 27 January.
Sample. There are 683 observations overall in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the period going from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Check out some statistics computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 110,594 contracts; they registered a minimum of 14,227 contracts on 14 March 2017; they achieved a maximum of 315,853 contracts on 9 September 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 206,699 |
| 2026-01-27 | 219,571 |
| 2026-02-03 | 169,933 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers 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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