COT reports: Long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 188,320 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 173,443 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,054 data points in total. The time range covered by the series is from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Check out some statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 146,504 contracts; they hit a peak of 379,025 on 19 June 2018; they reached their lowest level of 49,809 on 13 January 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 171140.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 173443.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 188320.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other 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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