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 269,174 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 269,583 on 9 June.
Sample. There are 1,045 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions recorded their highest level of 326,259 contracts on 14 October 2025; they recorded a bottom of 58,863 on 5 May 2009; they were equal on average to 177,991.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 292989.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 269583.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 269174.0 |
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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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