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" stood at 7,442 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 5,383 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series displayed in the chart, there are 1,028 records. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 5,009 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 16 October 2007; they recorded a maximum of 22,933 on 5 June 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 10894.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 5383.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 7442.0 |
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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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