COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers 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), net long positions held by money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were -13,175 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus -15,754 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 records overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions recorded their maximum of 72,845 contracts on 11 July 2017; they recorded a bottom of -77,369 on 13 May 2025; they were equal on average to 8,497.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | -18635.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | -15754.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | -13175.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by money managers 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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