COT reports: Net long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 82,834 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 75,386 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The time range covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a peak of 197,384 contracts on 11 May 2010; they reached a trough of 45,558 on 18 November 2025; they were equal on average to 102,561.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 69325.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 75386.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 82834.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by swap dealers 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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