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 21,227 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 24,158 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the graph has 1,041 records in total. The time range covered by the series is from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their maximum of 113,775 contracts on 5 June 2018; they reached a trough of 4,397 on 24 December 2007; they had an average value of 34,133.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 24261.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 24158.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 21227.0 |
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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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