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 321,475 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 312,829 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series extends from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions attained a maximum of 444,920 contracts on 4 February 2025; they recorded a minimum of 96,989 on 2 December 2008; they had a mean of 239,675.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 309717.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 312829.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 321475.0 |
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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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