COT reports: Long positions held by money managers 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 money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 117,922 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 110,732 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series presented in the chart has 1,034 observations. The span of time covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 76,251 contracts; they peaked at 142,705 on 18 February 2020; they recorded a bottom of 44,402 on 24 May 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 100946.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 110732.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 117922.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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