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 10,630 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 8,360 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions hit a maximum of 37,650 contracts on 15 August 2017; they reached a minimum of 4,676 on 5 May 2026; they averaged 15,827.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 8772.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 8360.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 10630.0 |
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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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