COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 36,170 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 28,592 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series displayed in the figure has 1,041 records overall. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their highest level of 77,140 contracts on 13 March 2018; they reached their lowest level of 9,654 on 22 May 2012; they had a mean of 31,544.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 36465.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 28592.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 36170.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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