COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 99,472 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 95,633 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. The weekly series plotted above has 1,058 records. The time range covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Take a look at a few statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 101,775 contracts; they reached their maximum of 247,765 on 19 December 2017; they reached a minimum of 20,829 on 1 April 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 94,710.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 95,633.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 99,472.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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