COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 140,446 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 124,506 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series is from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at some simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions reached their minimum of 102,972 contracts on 28 March 2023; they recorded a maximum of 235,794 on 25 May 2021; they averaged 156,034.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 130767.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 124506.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 140446.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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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