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 6,407 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 7,679 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 records in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The time period covered by the series extends from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions reached a minimum of 0 contracts on 22 March 2016; they reached their maximum of 15,976 on 22 March 2022; they had an average value of 3,596.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 8189.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 7679.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 6407.0 |
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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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