COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 8,918 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 5,591 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 1,023 records. The series covers the time span stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are a few simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their maximum of 30,314 contracts on 12 January 2016; they recorded a bottom of 231 on 11 August 2009; they had a mean value of 10,180.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 5139.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 5591.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 8918.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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