COT reports: Long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 16,055 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 18,940 on 20 January.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are a total of 1,025 data points. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics computed on the whole sample: positions registered a minimum of 4,843 contracts on 20 June 2023; they recorded their highest level of 37,650 on 15 August 2017; they had a mean of 16,069.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 21753.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 18940.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 16055.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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