COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 15,241 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 12,783 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 data points in the weekly time series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their minimum of 786 contracts on 31 July 2007; they recorded a maximum of 34,952 on 28 January 2020; they averaged 9,402.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 11182.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 12783.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 15241.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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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