COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders in wheat futures: WHEAT-SRW - 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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 29,211 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 28,480 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 records overall in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 30,167 contracts; they hit a peak of 68,349 on 11 July 2017; they hit a minimum of 6,997 on 6 July 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 26964.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 28480.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 29211.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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