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 1,684,261 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 1,622,958 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has a total of 1,041 data points. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached their highest level of 1,860,109 contracts on 18 February 2025; they reached a trough of 568,951 on 3 March 2009; they were equal on average to 1,191,518.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 1713041.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 1622958.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 1684261.0 |
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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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