COT reports: Long positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 16,638 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 18,005 on 10 February.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the figure has 1,028 data points. The time span covered by the series extends from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a trough of 12,918 contracts on 4 March 2014; they attained a maximum of 42,420 on 8 August 2006; they had a mean of 20,766.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 17740.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 18005.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 16638.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by non-reporting traders 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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