COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 12,003 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 14,244 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 1,028 data points in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at some simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions recorded a bottom of 231 contracts on 11 August 2009; they hit a peak of 30,314 on 12 January 2016; they had an average value of 10,190.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 13734.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 14244.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 12003.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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