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 40,334 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 36,104 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the figure has a total of 1,060 records. The span of time covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a maximum of 128,323 contracts on 14 October 2025; they recorded a minimum of 0 on 2 October 2012; they had an average value of 35,592.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 34441.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 36104.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 40334.0 |
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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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