COT reports: Long positions held by money managers 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 money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 75,328 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 71,212 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 1,034 data points in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their lowest level of 12,029 contracts on 14 October 2008; they achieved a maximum of 86,146 on 13 June 2017; they averaged 43,831.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 73424.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 71212.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 75328.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by money managers 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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