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" stood at 117,208 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 117,580 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations in the weekly time series shown in the chart above. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 123,477 contracts; they reached their minimum of 42,781 on 2 May 2023; they attained a maximum of 268,463 on 8 February 2011.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 120834.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 117580.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 117208.0 |
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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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