COT reports: Long positions held by all reporting traders 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 296,036 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 294,055 on 20 January.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,025 records. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions recorded a minimum of 58,863 contracts on 5 May 2009; they hit a maximum of 326,259 on 14 October 2025; they were equal on average to 176,011.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 286932.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 294055.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 296036.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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