COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 85,930 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 83,510 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,025 data points overall. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded a bottom of 11,565 contracts on 2 September 2008; they attained a maximum of 124,125 on 7 November 2017; they had a mean value of 50,301.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 81150.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 83510.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 85930.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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