COT reports: Long positions held by money managers 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 money managers in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 430,820 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 416,409 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series shown in the figure has 1,041 data points overall. The time span covered by the series goes from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached a maximum of 444,920 contracts on 4 February 2025; they reached their lowest level of 96,989 on 2 December 2008; they had a mean value of 238,805.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 440048.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 416409.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 430820.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by money managers 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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