COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in 15- to 25-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST BOND - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 121,312 contracts on 3 February 2026, versus 119,190 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. There are 683 observations in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The time period covered by the series goes from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions recorded their highest level of 153,117 contracts on 2 July 2024; they recorded a bottom of 6,991 on 10 April 2018; they had a mean value of 51,339.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 114940.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 119190.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 121312.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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