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 18,111 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 18,933 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,060 records overall. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions achieved a maximum of 38,230 contracts on 17 August 2021; they recorded a bottom of 19 on 28 November 2023; they had a mean of 12,537.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 19444.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 18933.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 18111.0 |
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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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