The wheat complex is showing gains across the three markets ahead of the holiday. Chicago SRW futures are trading 4 to 5 cents higher so far on Wednesday. KC HRW futures are 3 to 7 cents in the green on the day. MPLS spring wheat futures are up 4 to 5 cents with December 16 cents highr. The markets will be closed on Thursday for Thanksgiving, with a hard open at 8:30 CST on Friday and an early close. Friday is also first notice day for December futures.
Commitment of Traders data was released on Tuesday afternoon showing the week of October 14, with managed money adding 14,387 contracts to their net short position in CBT wheat futures and options at 111,743 contracts. In KC wheat, they added 4,170 contracts to their net short to 67,704 contracts.
