COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 80,981 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 80,670 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 going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded their highest level of 87,931 contracts on 19 May 2026; they recorded a bottom of 11,428 on 28 October 2008; they had an average value of 39,113.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 80592.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 80670.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 80981.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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