COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 33,074 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 33,269 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 1,058 records in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded their maximum of 79,031 contracts on 20 November 2007; they recorded a bottom of 28,256 on 30 December 2025; they had a mean value of 45,701.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 35,323.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 33,269.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 33,074.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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