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 104,856 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 100,817 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The time range covered by the series goes from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 101,777 contracts; they reached a maximum of 247,765 on 19 December 2017; they reached a trough of 20,829 on 1 April 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 99472.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 100817.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 104856.0 |
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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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