COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 306,523 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 311,936 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,060 records in total. The time range covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a peak of 345,241 contracts on 14 October 2025; they hit a trough of 75,335 on 5 May 2009; they averaged 200,084.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 310836.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 311936.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 306523.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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