SOYBEANS

Name: SOYBEANS — Commitments of Traders
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

SOYBEANS - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE · AGRICULTURE · CFTC Code 005602

Latest week — 2026-05-12

Open interest	1,236,781 contracts
Speculator (non-commercial) long	291,121 (23.5% of OI)
Speculator short	58,485 (4.7% of OI)
Speculator NET	+232,636
Commercial (hedger) long	506,749 (41.0% of OI)
Commercial short	698,186 (56.5% of OI)
Commercial NET	-191,437
Total traders	648

Week-over-week change

Open interest	+43,812
Speculator long	-11,082
Speculator short	-4,508
Commercial long	+22,113
Commercial short	+7,528

52-week history

Week	Open Interest	Spec Long	Spec Short	Comm Long	Comm Short
2026-05-12	1,236,781	291,121	58,485	506,749	698,186
2026-05-05	1,192,969	302,203	62,993	484,635	690,659
2026-04-28	1,096,353	255,968	59,112	471,678	635,384
2026-04-21	1,256,878	268,594	65,839	534,562	703,558
2026-04-14	1,271,026	258,224	71,905	560,048	711,325
2026-04-07	1,263,287	272,364	78,065	546,268	703,149
2026-03-31	1,239,712	281,783	63,190	529,778	709,162
2026-03-24	1,255,147	268,709	65,449	534,930	699,279
2026-03-17	1,286,114	282,623	68,843	523,941	700,976
2026-03-10	1,306,197	301,045	70,091	513,881	704,544
2026-03-03	1,241,062	287,878	73,740	493,140	669,497
2026-02-24	1,190,468	268,468	63,698	493,798	659,759
2026-02-17	1,281,116	256,737	67,604	537,118	690,958
2026-02-10	1,207,201	223,397	78,806	530,325	646,951
2026-02-03	1,084,818	176,179	114,566	511,490	551,563
2026-01-27	1,047,723	165,717	111,355	497,635	531,556
2026-01-20	1,038,385	158,908	113,545	489,491	515,463
2026-01-13	1,018,811	167,652	114,603	475,531	507,292
2026-01-06	961,910	183,466	87,498	435,871	518,111
2025-12-30	938,577	194,898	77,863	418,629	526,619
2025-12-23	1,116,964	216,930	73,534	458,140	594,864
2025-12-16	1,161,576	253,184	74,158	476,797	637,846
2025-12-09	1,192,964	287,068	75,459	485,505	674,650
2025-12-02	1,194,302	312,643	63,387	468,990	699,930
2025-11-25	1,189,294	308,146	59,147	460,262	690,474
2025-11-18	1,286,961	326,793	67,331	469,635	707,720
2025-11-10	1,230,936	303,638	73,689	455,250	668,013
2025-11-04	1,174,017	287,147	74,665	449,303	643,855
2025-10-28	1,110,340	238,588	84,992	483,895	621,548
2025-10-21	1,203,348	175,256	119,712	574,990	613,893
2025-10-14	1,232,606	164,148	145,795	598,546	595,608
2025-10-07	1,168,217	163,525	144,425	586,709	585,535
2025-09-30	1,159,546	145,002	169,461	595,659	554,634
2025-09-23	1,211,371	138,699	156,932	621,125	585,838
2025-09-16	1,121,447	150,141	135,694	580,710	580,593
2025-09-09	1,085,745	137,078	141,196	577,608	557,020
2025-09-02	1,074,829	150,238	130,963	550,437	552,099
2025-08-26	1,056,637	149,586	123,428	538,001	544,387
2025-08-19	1,126,728	143,519	130,163	559,392	554,601
2025-08-12	1,107,672	148,582	168,688	532,334	495,648
2025-08-05	1,098,923	148,361	196,748	538,998	472,023
2025-07-29	1,069,384	155,091	173,850	544,313	506,249
2025-07-22	1,144,600	158,728	152,501	562,910	549,431
2025-07-15	1,115,805	157,702	175,118	552,281	517,379
2025-07-08	1,045,797	161,115	149,415	508,090	502,890
2025-07-01	1,024,333	164,902	145,767	491,357	494,129
2025-06-24	988,599	181,686	134,894	467,096	499,957
2025-06-17	1,040,560	192,368	107,405	455,992	528,108
2025-06-10	1,038,315	176,222	121,386	470,018	514,011
2025-06-03	1,073,527	168,274	132,739	495,883	516,214
2025-05-27	1,052,306	179,248	114,927	470,321	525,563
2025-05-20	1,066,944	166,461	123,708	466,999	498,509

External source

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