COT reports: Short positions held by leveraged money 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 leveraged money managers in 25+-year Treasury futures of the kind "ULTRA UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 778,086 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 765,307 on 27 January.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 681 records in total. The series covers the time span extending from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Check out a few statistics computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 453,271 contracts; they reached a minimum of 68,913 on 29 January 2013; they peaked at 779,444 on 13 February 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 740033.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 765307.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 778086.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by leveraged money 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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