COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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), compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 31,398 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 23,368 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series shown in the figure, there are 1,025 data points. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at a few statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 31,497 contracts; they reached a maximum of 77,140 on 13 March 2018; they recorded a bottom of 9,654 on 22 May 2012.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 27304.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 23368.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 31398.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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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