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" were 451,291 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 450,921 on 22 September.
Sample. This weekly series has a total of 1,060 records. The series covers the time span stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 370,575 contracts; they achieved a maximum of 528,423 on 23 January 2018; they hit a trough of 206,466 on 22 December 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 452064.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 450921.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 451291.0 |
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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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