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 114,010 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 114,651 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has a total of 1,041 observations. The period covered by the series extends from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 86,261 contracts; they reached their maximum of 172,992 on 11 July 2017; they hit a trough of 32,669 on 3 March 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 113150.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 114651.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 114010.0 |
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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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