COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 20,874 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 20,540 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 1,054 records in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions recorded a minimum of 16,893 contracts on 1 September 2020; they hit a peak of 39,971 on 8 August 2006; they had an average value of 24,045.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 20120.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 20540.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 20874.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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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