COT reports: Net long positions held by swap dealers 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), net long positions held by swap dealers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 71,390 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 71,141 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 1,025 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The series covers the time span stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a minimum of 9,802 contracts on 28 October 2008; they reached their maximum of 76,440 on 25 March 2025; they were equal on average to 34,350.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 71303.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 71141.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 71390.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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