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" stood at 5,791 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 5,904 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 data points in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The time period covered by the series is from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 15,971 contracts; they hit a trough of 4,676 on 5 May 2026; they recorded their maximum of 37,650 on 15 August 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 4676.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 5904.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 5791.0 |
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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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