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" were -98,877 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to -107,988 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the chart, there are 1,060 observations in total. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions hit a minimum of -130,381 contracts on 18 July 2017; they peaked at 6,050 on 1 December 2015; they were equal on average to -46,581.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | -111396.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | -107988.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | -98877.0 |
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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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