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" stood at 285,706 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 290,909 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 179,342 contracts; they hit a peak of 326,259 on 14 October 2025; they hit a trough of 58,863 on 5 May 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 290450.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 290909.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 285706.0 |
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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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