COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money 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 leveraged money managers in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 454,924 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 496,012 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 observations in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time range going from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached their lowest level of 38,521 contracts on 22 March 2016; they recorded their maximum of 836,820 on 19 November 2024; they had a mean value of 265,221.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 506216.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 496012.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 454924.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money 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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