COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 76,833 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 85,170 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the chart, there are 1,025 observations. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their minimum of 57,000 contracts on 24 October 2023; they reached their highest level of 226,163 on 18 May 2010; they averaged 115,766.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 81671.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 85170.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 76833.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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