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 71,011 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 76,739 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions registered a minimum of 12,029 contracts on 14 October 2008; they achieved a maximum of 86,146 on 13 June 2017; they were equal on average to 44,441.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 78854.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 76739.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 71011.0 |
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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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