COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 33,019 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 37,801 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 records overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out some summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded a maximum of 99,245 contracts on 12 December 2017; they registered a minimum of 12,653 on 21 November 2006; they had a mean value of 40,553.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 39517.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 37801.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 33019.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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