COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 19,444 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 17,903 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,058 records in total. The series covers the time period going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions averaged 12,525 contracts; they hit a minimum of 19 on 28 November 2023; they recorded their highest level of 38,230 on 17 August 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 15,615.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 17,903.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 19,444.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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