COT reports: Long positions held by all reporting traders in wheat futures: WHEAT-SRW - 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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 438,496 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 407,755 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. The weekly series presented in the figure has a total of 1,041 data points. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions recorded their maximum of 530,036 contracts on 23 January 2018; they recorded a minimum of 226,022 on 30 December 2008; they had a mean of 381,018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 396101.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 407755.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 438496.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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