COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in corn futures: CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Corn 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 290,375 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 265,480 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 135,015 contracts; they hit a maximum of 411,111 on 11 February 2025; they reached a trough of 29,130 on 25 August 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 242894.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 265480.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 290375.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in corn 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: "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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