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 124,881 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 130,865 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The time period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 123,535 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 268,463 on 8 February 2011; they hit a minimum of 42,781 on 2 May 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 134063.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 130865.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 124881.0 |
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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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