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 81,150 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 85,292 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The time span covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 50,234 contracts; they peaked at 124,125 on 7 November 2017; they reached their minimum of 11,565 on 2 September 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 81165.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 85292.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 81150.0 |
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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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