COT reports: Net long positions held by non-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), net long positions held by non-reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at -69,477 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to -123,581 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions hit a minimum of -160,924 contracts on 26 January 2010; they hit a maximum of 99,393 on 17 September 2019; they averaged -59,994.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | -64536.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | -123581.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | -69477.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by non-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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