COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 4,431 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 4,310 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time range stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 3,580 contracts; they hit a peak of 15,976 on 22 March 2022; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 10 April 2012.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 3288.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 4310.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 4431.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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