COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 1,165 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 1,613 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The time span covered by the series goes from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 3,608 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 22 March 2016; they reached a maximum of 15,976 on 22 March 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 1697.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 1613.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 1165.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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