COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 77,945 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 69,839 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 1,025 records in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The time range covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at some statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached a trough of 42,781 contracts on 2 May 2023; they reached a maximum of 268,463 on 8 February 2011; they averaged 124,064.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 70079.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 69839.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 77945.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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