COT reports: Net long positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were -5,544 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to -4,240 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions registered a minimum of -14,869 contracts on 20 May 2008; they peaked at 15,784 on 9 April 2019; they had a mean of -3,346.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | -6163.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | -4240.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | -5544.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by non-reporting traders 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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