COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 1,542,169 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 1,500,575 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are a total of 1,054 data points. The series covers the time period going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 1,196,602 contracts; they hit a trough of 568,951 on 3 March 2009; they achieved a maximum of 1,860,109 on 18 February 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 1579527.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 1500575.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 1542169.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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