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 343,346 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 296,238 on 9 June.
Sample. In the weekly time series shown in the figure, there are 1,045 records in total. The series covers the span of time extending from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions averaged 165,269 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 530,000 on 23 April 2019; they reached a trough of 6,714 on 31 July 2012.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 192995.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 296238.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 343346.0 |
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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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