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" were 113,624 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 108,971 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 1,034 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Take a look at some simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 86,073 contracts; they reached a trough of 32,669 on 3 March 2009; they attained a maximum of 172,992 on 11 July 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 110524.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 108971.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 113624.0 |
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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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