COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 98,438 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 98,028 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are a total of 1,023 records. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached a trough of 32,669 contracts on 3 March 2009; they achieved a maximum of 172,992 on 11 July 2017; they averaged 85,868.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 95696.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 98028.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 98438.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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