COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 536,028 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 519,231 on 20 January.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,025 observations in total. The series covers the period stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions achieved a maximum of 572,693 contracts on 23 January 2018; they recorded a bottom of 247,141 on 22 December 2008; they were equal on average to 414,594.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 513710.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 519231.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 536028.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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