COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 41,896 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 41,216 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,025 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their lowest level of 12,653 contracts on 21 November 2006; they hit a peak of 99,245 on 12 December 2017; they had a mean of 40,555.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 33019.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 41216.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 41896.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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