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 26,766 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 26,670 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. The weekly series shown in the figure has 1,060 data points overall. The period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 30,147 contracts; they hit a minimum of 6,997 on 6 July 2021; they attained a maximum of 68,349 on 11 July 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 26142.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 26670.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 26766.0 |
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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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