COT reports: Net long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 71,303 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 62,837 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The time period covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 34,278 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 9,802 on 28 October 2008; they reached their maximum of 76,440 on 25 March 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 64142.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 62837.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 71303.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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