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" stood at 7,791 contracts on 17 February 2026, versus 7,771 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 1,028 records in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded a bottom of 19 contracts on 28 November 2023; they recorded their maximum of 38,230 on 17 August 2021; they had an average value of 12,348.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 9371.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 7771.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 7791.0 |
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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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