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 7,455 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 7,997 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,025 records in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 12,360 contracts; they reached their highest level of 38,230 on 17 August 2021; they reached their lowest level of 19 on 28 November 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 7864.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 7997.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 7455.0 |
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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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