COT reports: Short positions held by dealers in 25+-year Treasury futures: ULTRA 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 25+-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 357,386 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 364,561 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 681 observations in total. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions peaked at 364,561 contracts on 27 January 2026; they reached a minimum of 30,251 contracts on 30 November 2021; they had an average value of 113,941 contracts.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 344,502 |
| 2026-01-27 | 364,561 |
| 2026-02-03 | 357,386 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by dealers in futures on 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: "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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