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" were 419,962 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 436,995 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 data points in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Check out some summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions achieved a maximum of 530,036 contracts on 23 January 2018; they registered a minimum of 226,022 on 30 December 2008; they were equal on average to 381,444.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 431961.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 436995.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 419962.0 |
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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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