COT reports: Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were -79,824 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to -63,739 on 12 May.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,041 observations. The time range covered by the series extends from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of -73,370 contracts; they hit a trough of -210,060 on 8 February 2011; they attained a maximum of 46,530 on 13 May 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | -68187.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | -63739.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | -79824.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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