COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 22,289 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 21,318 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The time period covered by the series is from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged 9,552 contracts; they hit a minimum of 786 on 31 July 2007; they recorded their maximum of 34,952 on 28 January 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 22603.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 21318.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 22289.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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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