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 25,298 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 25,084 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 data points in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions hit a maximum of 38,230 contracts on 17 August 2021; they reached a minimum of 19 on 28 November 2023; they averaged 12,448.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 20330.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 25084.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 25298.0 |
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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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