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 286,932 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 284,489 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,023 data points in total. The period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 175,778 contracts; they hit a minimum of 58,863 on 5 May 2009; they reached a maximum of 326,259 on 14 October 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 278865.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 284489.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 286932.0 |
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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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