COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 44,124 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 39,501 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 1,028 observations overall in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The time range covered by the series is from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Have a look at a few statistics we computed on the full sample: positions hit a minimum of 4,397 contracts on 24 December 2007; they recorded their maximum of 113,775 on 5 June 2018; they were equal on average to 34,320.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 40359.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 39501.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 44124.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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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