COT reports: Net long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 12,835 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 17,384 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 records in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The time range covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions hit a maximum of 27,621 contracts on 1 October 2019; they registered a minimum of -17,897 on 10 March 2015; they had a mean value of 5,886.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 16835.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 17384.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 12835.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by other 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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