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" were 139,783 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 186,954 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,054 observations. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their lowest level of 6,714 contracts on 31 July 2012; they recorded their maximum of 530,000 on 23 April 2019; they had a mean of 166,000.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 164896.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 186954.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 139783.0 |
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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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