COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 1,753,738 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 1,746,539 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. The weekly series plotted above has a total of 1,041 records. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 1,251,512 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 1,951,559 on 18 February 2025; they reached their lowest level of 637,981 on 3 March 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 1777577.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 1746539.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 1753738.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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