COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by producers and merchants in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 11,071 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 20,665 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 records overall in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the period stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to -73,928 contracts; they reached their lowest level of -210,060 on 8 February 2011; they reached their highest level of 46,530 on 13 May 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 9594.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 20665.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 11071.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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