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 14,340 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 13,058 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 1,034 records in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The time period covered by the series is from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 34,210 contracts; they reached a maximum of 113,775 on 5 June 2018; they reached a minimum of 4,397 on 24 December 2007.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 11535.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 13058.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 14340.0 |
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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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