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 409,002 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 419,633 on 9 June.
Sample. There are 1,045 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 369,841 contracts; they reached their maximum of 528,423 on 23 January 2018; they reached their lowest level of 206,466 on 22 December 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 444299.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 419633.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 409002.0 |
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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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