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 31,166 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 28,386 on 12 May.
Sample. In the weekly series plotted above, there are 1,041 data points. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 10,327 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 231 on 11 August 2009; they hit a peak of 31,166 on 19 May 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 28286.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 28386.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 31166.0 |
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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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