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 20,603 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 20,142 on 24 March.
Sample. In the weekly time series plotted above, there are 1,034 records. The series covers the period stretching from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded a bottom of 19 contracts on 28 November 2023; they hit a peak of 38,230 on 17 August 2021; they averaged 12,387.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 19580.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 20142.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 20603.0 |
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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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