COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 8,451 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 9,730 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series presented in the plot has 1,034 records in total. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 5,027 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 0 on 16 October 2007; they recorded their maximum of 22,933 on 5 June 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 8884.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 9730.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 8451.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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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