COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 34,441 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 30,091 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. The weekly series shown in the graph has 1,058 observations. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions reached a trough of 0 contracts on 2 October 2012; they achieved a maximum of 128,323 on 14 October 2025; they had a mean of 35,587.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 33,647.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 30,091.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 34,441.0 |
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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-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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