COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 159,882 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 172,200 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 records in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time period going from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 94,469 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 216,866 on 29 July 2025; they reached a trough of 27,592 on 13 September 2011.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 172544.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 172200.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 159882.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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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