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 21,506 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 19,114 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,060 data points in total. The series covers the time period going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached a minimum of 16,893 contracts on 1 September 2020; they recorded their highest level of 39,971 on 8 August 2006; they had a mean of 24,023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 19376.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 19114.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 21506.0 |
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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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