COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 199,351 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 269,736 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. The weekly series presented in the chart has 1,041 records overall. The time range covered by the series is from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics computed on the entire sample: positions hit a peak of 293,948 contracts on 7 November 2006; they reached their lowest level of 149,056 on 9 December 2025; they had a mean value of 205,953.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 198232.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 269736.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 199351.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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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