COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 58,623 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 67,369 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series displayed in the graph, there are 1,060 records. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 165,469 contracts; they reached their minimum of 6,714 on 31 July 2012; they reached a maximum of 530,000 on 23 April 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 69278.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 67369.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 58623.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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