COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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), long positions held by producers and merchants in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 60,444 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 60,051 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,058 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 50,510 contracts; they peaked at 124,125 on 7 November 2017; they hit a minimum of 11,565 on 2 September 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 42,440.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 60,051.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 60,444.0 |
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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-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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