COT reports: Short positions held by money managers in wheat futures: WHEAT-HRW - 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 money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 51,528 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 61,694 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 1,034 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series extends from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions hit a maximum of 128,323 contracts on 14 October 2025; they reached their minimum of 0 on 2 October 2012; they had a mean value of 35,420.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 62102.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 61694.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 51528.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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