COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 181,421 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 199,082 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series displayed in the plot, there are 1,025 observations. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 101,242 contracts; they registered a minimum of 20,829 on 1 April 2008; they recorded a maximum of 247,765 on 19 December 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 198537.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 199082.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 181421.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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