COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 65,344 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 62,556 on 24 March.
Sample. There are 1,034 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The time range covered by the series extends from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 23,786 contracts; they attained a maximum of 79,365 on 21 May 2019; they hit a minimum of 2,519 on 19 May 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 62688.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 62556.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 65344.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers 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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