COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 115,846 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 121,915 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a trough of 32,669 contracts on 3 March 2009; they attained a maximum of 172,992 on 11 July 2017; they had an average value of 86,524.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 121906.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 121915.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 115846.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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