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 137,478 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 120,789 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series displayed in the figure, there are 1,041 data points overall. The period covered by the series extends from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions recorded a minimum of 6,714 contracts on 31 July 2012; they recorded their highest level of 530,000 on 23 April 2019; they had a mean value of 164,951.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 95407.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 120789.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 137478.0 |
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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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