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 74,645 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 76,095 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 1,034 data points in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their minimum of 11,428 contracts on 28 October 2008; they recorded their highest level of 81,798 on 25 March 2025; they had a mean of 38,286.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 79383.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 76095.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 74645.0 |
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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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