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 15,655 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 16,548 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 data points overall in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The time period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions averaged 30,158 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 6,997 on 6 July 2021; they recorded their highest level of 68,349 on 11 July 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 10536.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 16548.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 15655.0 |
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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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