COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 26,142 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 25,795 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 1,058 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The time period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are some statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had an average value of 30,153 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 6,997 on 6 July 2021; they recorded a maximum of 68,349 on 11 July 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 26,978.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 25,795.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 26,142.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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