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 15,766 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 14,303 on 11 August.
Sample. The weekly time series shown in the plot has 1,054 data points. The series covers the period going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 33,957 contracts; they hit a peak of 113,775 on 5 June 2018; they registered a minimum of 4,397 on 24 December 2007.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 16130.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 14303.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 15766.0 |
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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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