COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 290,450 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 284,769 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,058 observations in total. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged 179,136 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 326,259 on 14 October 2025; they hit a minimum of 58,863 on 5 May 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 285,609 |
| 2026-09-08 | 284,769 |
| 2026-09-15 | 290,450 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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