COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 81,671 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 73,321 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 data points in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The time span covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached a maximum of 226,163 contracts on 18 May 2010; they reached a trough of 57,000 on 24 October 2023; they had a mean value of 115,834.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 69208.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 73321.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 81671.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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