COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 321,474 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 334,882 on 22 September.
Sample. In the weekly series displayed in the figure, there are 1,060 observations in total. The series covers the time span stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 275,593 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 422,803 on 10 August 2010; they hit a minimum of 138,981 on 2 April 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 328816.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 334882.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 321474.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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