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 86,816 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 83,747 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,034 records. The series covers the time span extending from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had an average value of 165,237 contracts; they attained a maximum of 530,000 on 23 April 2019; they reached their minimum of 6,714 on 31 July 2012.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 112770.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 83747.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 86816.0 |
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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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