COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 472,320 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 521,824 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 1,028 records overall in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The time span covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Check out some statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 414,880 contracts; they reached a trough of 247,141 on 22 December 2008; they reached their maximum of 572,693 on 23 January 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 543432.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 521824.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 472320.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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