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 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 asset managers in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 569,505 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 556,795 on 27 January.
Sample. There are 683 records in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time period extending from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a trough of 67,354 contracts on 10 March 2015; they achieved a maximum of 712,143 on 28 October 2025; they averaged 260,692.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 585717.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 556795.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 569505.0 |
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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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