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 87,931 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 85,535 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions attained a maximum of 87,931 contracts on 19 May 2026; they hit a minimum of 11,428 on 28 October 2008; they had an average value of 38,575.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 82179.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 85535.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 87931.0 |
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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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