COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 81,211 contracts on 17 February 2026, versus 80,688 on 10 February.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,028 data points. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their highest level of 268,463 contracts on 8 February 2011; they registered a minimum of 42,781 on 2 May 2023; they had an average value of 123,937.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 79906.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 80688.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 81211.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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