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" were 81,210 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 82,569 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series plotted above, there are a total of 1,060 data points. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their highest level of 87,931 contracts on 19 May 2026; they reached their lowest level of 11,428 on 28 October 2008; they averaged 39,358.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 83645.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 82569.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 81210.0 |
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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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