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" were 198,537 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 199,534 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached their lowest level of 20,829 contracts on 1 April 2008; they recorded their maximum of 247,765 on 19 December 2017; they averaged 101,068.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 192570.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 199534.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 198537.0 |
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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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