COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 32,958 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 26,556 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,025 data points in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time span extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a peak of 57,568 contracts on 30 October 2018; they reached a minimum of 2,962 on 19 December 2006; they had a mean value of 15,569.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 25895.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 26556.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 32958.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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