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 128,243 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 131,324 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. The weekly series presented in the plot has 1,058 observations in total. The time range covered by the series goes from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 86,678 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 172,992 on 11 July 2017; they registered a minimum of 32,669 on 3 March 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 128,345 |
| 2026-09-08 | 131,324 |
| 2026-09-15 | 128,243 |
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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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