COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders 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 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 all reporting traders in 25+-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 1,998,387 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 1,983,553 on 27 January.
Sample. The weekly time series displayed in the graph has 681 records in total. The time span covered by the series is from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at a few statistics calculated on the full sample: positions recorded a minimum of 295,434 contracts on 8 January 2013; they recorded a maximum of 2,145,759 on 25 November 2025; they had an average value of 961,146.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 1969071.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 1983553.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 1998387.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders 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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