COT reports: Short positions held by asset managers 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 asset managers in 25+-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 416,185 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 405,406 on 27 January.
Sample. There are 681 observations in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time period extending from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their highest level of 612,479 contracts on 15 July 2025; they reached a minimum of 9,458 on 24 September 2013; they had a mean value of 169,643.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 440153.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 405406.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 416185.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by asset managers 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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