COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 503,584 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 487,014 on 20 January.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,025 records in total. The time period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their highest level of 530,036 contracts on 23 January 2018; they hit a minimum of 226,022 on 30 December 2008; they averaged 380,123.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 483278.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 487014.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 503584.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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