COT reports: Long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 8,816 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 8,810 on 11 August.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,054 records overall. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached their maximum of 37,650 contracts on 15 August 2017; they reached their lowest level of 4,676 on 5 May 2026; they were equal on average to 15,867.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 6836.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 8810.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 8816.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other 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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