COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 139,091 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 131,815 on 6 January.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,023 data points in total. The time span covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 53,468 contracts; they hit a minimum of 15,241 on 30 December 2008; they recorded their maximum of 140,676 on 4 February 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 128757.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 131815.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 139091.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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