COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-SRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 513,710 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 500,768 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,023 observations in total. The span of time covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 414,373 contracts; they hit a minimum of 247,141 on 22 December 2008; they recorded their maximum of 572,693 on 23 January 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 488488.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 500768.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 513710.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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