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 36,013 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 37,516 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 records in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The time period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 35,597 contracts; they registered a minimum of 0 on 2 October 2012; they reached their maximum of 128,323 on 14 October 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 35460.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 37516.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 36013.0 |
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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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