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 112,951 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 119,121 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 observations in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 101,560 contracts; they hit a peak of 247,765 on 19 December 2017; they recorded a minimum of 20,829 on 1 April 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 107064.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 119121.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 112951.0 |
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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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