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 14,045 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 14,419 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations overall in the weekly time series shown in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached their highest level of 38,230 contracts on 17 August 2021; they hit a trough of 19 on 28 November 2023; they were equal on average to 12,509.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 14726.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 14419.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 14045.0 |
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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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