COT reports: Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at -96,138 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus -94,131 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The time span covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged -46,232 contracts; they attained a maximum of 6,050 on 1 December 2015; they hit a trough of -130,381 on 18 July 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | -97034.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | -94131.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | -96138.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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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