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 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 dealers in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 169,933 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 219,571 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 data points in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the span of time going from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at some statistics computed on the whole sample: positions reached a maximum of 315,853 contracts on 9 September 2025; they hit a trough of 14,227 on 14 March 2017; they had a mean of 110,594.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 206699.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 219571.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 169933.0 |
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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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