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 474,622 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 446,762 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the span of time extending from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their lowest level of 247,141 contracts on 22 December 2008; they hit a peak of 572,693 on 23 January 2018; they were equal on average to 415,479.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 433831.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 446762.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 474622.0 |
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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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