COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 18,936 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 18,578 on 9 June.
Sample. There are 1,045 data points in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The time span covered by the series extends from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some summary statistics computed on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 12,475 contracts; they hit a minimum of 19 on 28 November 2023; they achieved a maximum of 38,230 on 17 August 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 19653.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 18578.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 18936.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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