COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 286,666 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 275,182 on 12 May.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,041 data points in total. The series covers the time range stretching from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions hit a minimum of 58,863 contracts on 5 May 2009; they reached a maximum of 326,259 on 14 October 2025; they had an average value of 177,594.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 271993.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 275182.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 286666.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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