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 93,855 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 99,893 on 9 June.
Sample. There are 1,045 data points in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time span extending from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics calculated on the full sample: positions achieved a maximum of 172,992 contracts on 11 July 2017; they registered a minimum of 32,669 on 3 March 2009; they had a mean value of 86,334.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 111021.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 99893.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 93855.0 |
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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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