COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 108,716 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 112,454 on 11 August.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,054 observations overall. The time period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached a minimum of 15,241 contracts on 30 December 2008; they recorded their maximum of 156,644 on 27 January 2026; they had a mean of 55,116.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 116074.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 112454.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 108716.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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