COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers 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), net long positions held by money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were -25,328 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to -33,400 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at some statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of -25,351 contracts; they registered a minimum of -171,269 on 25 April 2017; they hit a maximum of 73,662 on 7 August 2012.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | -24870.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | -33400.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | -25328.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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