COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 19,708 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 27,784 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 1,054 records in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time span stretching from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at some statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their maximum of 99,245 contracts on 12 December 2017; they reached a trough of 12,653 on 21 November 2006; they were equal on average to 40,292.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 24872.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 27784.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 19708.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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