COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in wheat futures: WHEAT-HRW - 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 all reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 291,460 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 284,960 on 8 September.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,058 records overall. The time period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 175,848 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 52,930 on 5 May 2009; they recorded a maximum of 326,515 on 14 October 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 286,244 |
| 2026-09-08 | 284,960 |
| 2026-09-15 | 291,460 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders 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-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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