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10-Year T-Note COT positioning

Large speculators, commercials and small traders in 10-Year Treasury note futures (CBOT). CFTC report for positions as of November 3, 2026 (6 days ago).
How this is computed

The CFTC publishes the Commitments of Traders report every Friday for positions held the prior Tuesday. This page reads the legacy report, futures only, for the contract the CFTC lists as UST 10Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (code 043602). Method: how to read this page.

In the CFTC Commitments of Traders report for positions as of Tuesday, November 3, 2026, large speculators (non-commercial traders) in 10-Year Treasury note futures were net short 962,359 contracts, 16.2% of open interest, and their net position changed by +19,179 contracts from the week of October 27, 2026.

Kresmion computes each trader group's net position (long minus short) and its change from the prior week, the speculator share of open interest, the 3-year z-score and the 3-year COT index from the positions the CFTC reports; they describe positioning, not a forecast.

As of . Source: CFTC Commitments of Traders. Method and limitations.

Positions by trader groupcontracts, week of 2026-11-03

Open interest 5,947,433 contracts. Change is against the report for October 27, 2026.
GroupNetChangeLongShort
Large speculators
non-commercial; net short, 16.2% of open interest
-962,359+19,179713,2471,675,606
Commercials
hedgers
+927,242-30,7194,686,2713,759,029
Small traders
nonreportable
+35,117+11,540418,251383,134

Speculators against their own three-year rangestored values, CFTC data

Net, share of open interest
-16.2%
3-year z-score
-0.31 sigma
3-year COT index (0 to 100)
8

Last 52 weeks52 weekly reports, newest first; 172 on file

Week ofSpec netChange% of OICommercial netOpen interest
2026-11-03-962,359+19,179-16.2%+927,2425,947,433
2026-10-27-981,538-17,245-16.7%+957,9615,881,588
2026-10-20-964,293+23,809-16.4%+930,8195,868,295
2026-10-13-988,102-91,621-17.0%+942,5665,819,512
2026-10-06-896,481+4,134-15.6%+870,0485,742,990
2026-09-29-900,615-88,863-15.9%+851,8425,676,556
2026-09-22-811,752+9,484-15.0%+826,0355,407,726
2026-09-15-821,236+13,547-15.3%+824,5035,377,777
2026-09-08-834,783+74,492-16.0%+838,1725,225,295
2026-09-01-909,275-70,300-17.2%+885,3815,276,634
2026-08-25-838,975+107,986-13.5%+775,0256,208,739
2026-08-18-946,961-31,908-16.9%+914,3855,596,739
2026-08-11-915,053+64,190-16.8%+914,0115,458,890
2026-08-04-979,243-103,124-18.6%+995,4165,265,447
2026-07-28-876,119+3,587-16.5%+890,2675,313,478
2026-07-21-879,706-48,031-16.7%+890,1185,272,703
2026-07-14-831,675-17,413-15.7%+803,5895,284,601
2026-07-07-814,262-5,371-15.3%+793,2715,315,630
2026-06-30-808,891+26,375-15.4%+789,3825,248,455
2026-06-23-835,266+75,816-15.8%+826,1945,271,748
2026-06-16-911,082-47,275-17.1%+891,3315,324,590
2026-06-09-863,807-34,232-16.4%+864,6955,251,295
2026-06-02-829,575-41,621-15.6%+821,7425,323,279
2026-05-26-787,954+60,098-12.6%+496,1856,254,472
2026-05-19-848,052-66,885-14.5%+786,2755,833,268
2026-05-12-781,167+34,102-13.3%+733,7435,866,357
2026-05-05-815,269+23,868-15.2%+747,3435,369,025
2026-04-28-839,137-48,166-15.6%+747,9205,374,513
2026-04-21-790,971+9,394-15.2%+726,8895,213,875
2026-04-14-800,365+23,259-15.4%+757,9575,187,440
2026-04-07-823,624-39,561-16.1%+799,3425,123,122
2026-03-31-784,063-142,176-15.2%+748,3255,152,796
2026-03-24-641,887-44,009-12.4%+600,1345,163,104
2026-03-17-597,878-62,995-11.3%+550,7875,279,072
2026-03-10-534,883+119,624-10.0%+497,2515,324,068
2026-03-03-654,507+119,513-12.0%+620,3055,466,660
2026-02-24-774,020+103,833-13.0%+766,8195,968,025
2026-02-17-877,853-64,826-15.3%+806,9615,721,555
2026-02-10-813,027-83,613-14.8%+727,2175,500,736
2026-02-03-729,414-3,263-13.3%+664,9905,495,119
2026-01-27-726,151-70,511-12.8%+650,7645,690,843
2026-01-20-655,640+214,865-11.4%+573,0965,749,730
2026-01-13-870,505+45,047-15.2%+785,6505,709,182
2026-01-06-915,552+24,106-16.5%+810,7315,536,100
2025-12-30-939,658-197,288-17.1%+807,5805,500,186
2025-12-23-742,370-72,262-13.3%+658,6065,569,530
2025-12-16-670,108+16,656-12.3%+524,2035,426,319
2025-12-09-686,764+50,191-12.5%+552,0045,513,724
2025-12-02-736,955+44,428-13.1%+596,9685,637,723
2025-11-25-781,383-27,686-12.9%+634,5526,045,379
2025-11-18-753,697+67,110-13.0%+607,7115,779,841
2025-11-10-820,807+38,438-14.8%+690,3295,558,246

How to read this page

The CFTC publishes the Commitments of Traders report every Friday, covering positions as of the prior Tuesday, so every figure here is lagged by a few days. Large speculators are the non-commercial traders (funds); commercials are hedgers (producers and users of the underlying); small traders are the nonreportable accounts below the CFTC reporting levels. Net is long minus short; change is the net against the prior weekly report. Spread positions are not part of any net shown here.

The 3-year z-score is the current speculator net share of open interest, minus its trailing three-year mean, divided by its trailing three-year standard deviation, with the current week left out of its own baseline. The 3-year COT index rescales the speculator net to 0 at its three-year low and 100 at its three-year high. Both describe how crowded positioning is against its own past three years; they are not a forecast, and this page makes no directional call. A blank reading means the contract does not have three years on file yet.

Source: CFTC Commitments of Traders. Explainer: what COT net-long positioning means. All 20 contracts: CFTC COT positioning.

Cite this data

Kresmion computes each trader group's net position (long minus short) and its change from the prior week, the speculator share of open interest, the 3-year z-score and the 3-year COT index from the positions the CFTC reports; they describe positioning, not a forecast.

Upstream: CFTC Commitments of Traders

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