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" were 44,274 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 42,590 on 24 March.
Sample. There are 1,034 observations overall in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded their highest level of 68,349 contracts on 11 July 2017; they reached a minimum of 6,997 on 6 July 2021; they had an average value of 30,145.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 43047.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 42590.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 44274.0 |
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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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