COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 25,895 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 24,796 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 records in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 15,541 contracts; they reached a minimum of 2,962 on 19 December 2006; they peaked at 57,568 on 30 October 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 24844.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 24796.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 25895.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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