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 125,476 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 101,086 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The time span covered by the series extends from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions registered a minimum of 42,781 contracts on 2 May 2023; they reached their maximum of 268,463 on 8 February 2011; they had a mean value of 123,691.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 102379.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 101086.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 125476.0 |
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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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