COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 154,679 contracts on 17 February 2026, versus 176,117 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 1,028 records in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had a mean of 101,433 contracts; they hit a trough of 20,829 on 1 April 2008; they attained a maximum of 247,765 on 19 December 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 169862.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 176117.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 154679.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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