COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants in wheat futures: WHEAT-SRW - 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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 50,755 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 64,948 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 data points in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions hit a minimum of 11,565 contracts on 2 September 2008; they reached their maximum of 124,125 on 7 November 2017; they had a mean of 50,499.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 67896.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 64948.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 50755.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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