COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 63,853 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 64,195 on 6 January.
Sample. The weekly series shown in the plot has 1,023 data points in total. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at some statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 23,360 contracts; they reached a minimum of 2,519 on 19 May 2009; they recorded their maximum of 79,365 on 21 May 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 64453.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 64195.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 63853.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers 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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