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" were 74,860 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 74,853 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 records overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The time range covered by the series extends from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics computed on the full sample: positions registered a minimum of 12,029 contracts on 14 October 2008; they peaked at 86,146 on 13 June 2017; they had a mean value of 44,026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 76005.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 74853.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 74860.0 |
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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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