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 24,239 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 21,202 on 11 August.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,054 data points in total. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at a few statistics computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 10,495 contracts; they reached their minimum of 231 on 11 August 2009; they peaked at 36,380 on 26 May 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 20675.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 21202.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 24239.0 |
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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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