COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in wheat futures: WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Wheat futures 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 all reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 436,817 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 487,397 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 1,028 records overall in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 368,844 contracts; they reached a minimum of 206,466 on 22 December 2008; they reached their maximum of 528,423 on 23 January 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 510036.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 487397.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 436817.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders in wheat futures |
| 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: WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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