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 30,504 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 30,868 on 9 June.
Sample. In the weekly time series presented in the figure, there are 1,045 records. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached a maximum of 68,349 contracts on 11 July 2017; they reached a minimum of 6,997 on 6 July 2021; they had a mean value of 30,196.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 30601.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 30868.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 30504.0 |
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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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