COT reports: Long positions held by money managers 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 money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 87,374 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 85,522 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series shown in the figure, there are a total of 1,025 observations. The time span covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics computed on the full sample: positions had an average value of 76,056 contracts; they reached their maximum of 142,705 on 18 February 2020; they reached their lowest level of 44,402 on 24 May 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 90290.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 85522.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 87374.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by money managers 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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