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 94,481 contracts on 16 June 2026, versus 90,363 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. There are 1,045 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions hit a trough of 15,241 contracts on 30 December 2008; they hit a peak of 156,644 on 27 January 2026; they had an average value of 54,750.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 110259.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 90363.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 94481.0 |
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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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