COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 70,079 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 64,627 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has a total of 1,023 data points. The time period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 124,162 contracts; they reached a maximum of 268,463 on 8 February 2011; they hit a minimum of 42,781 on 2 May 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 71571.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 64627.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 70079.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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