COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers 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), net long positions held by money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 31,497 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 25,606 on 11 August.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,054 records overall. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 8,657 contracts; they hit a minimum of -77,369 on 13 May 2025; they peaked at 72,845 on 11 July 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 31496.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 25606.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 31497.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by money managers 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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