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 1,598,711 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 1,547,359 on 11 August.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the plot, there are a total of 1,054 observations. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 1,256,467 contracts; they reached their highest level of 1,951,559 on 18 February 2025; they reached their minimum of 637,981 on 3 March 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 1626250.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 1547359.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 1598711.0 |
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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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