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 78,265 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 82,397 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 data points in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 35,057 contracts; they reached a trough of 0 on 2 October 2012; they hit a maximum of 128,323 on 14 October 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 81176.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 82397.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 78265.0 |
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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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