COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 103,130 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 101,312 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the plot, there are 1,041 observations overall. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at a few simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 115,388 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 226,163 on 18 May 2010; they hit a minimum of 57,000 on 24 October 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 96942.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 101312.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 103130.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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