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" stood at 82,747 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 88,801 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics computed on the full sample: positions hit a peak of 142,705 contracts on 18 February 2020; they reached their lowest level of 44,402 on 24 May 2016; they had a mean value of 76,540.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 95798.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 88801.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 82747.0 |
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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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