COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 67,870 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 54,406 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 data points in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The time period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 66,773 contracts; they hit a maximum of 173,322 on 15 October 2013; they reached their lowest level of 25,905 on 7 April 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 60893.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 54406.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 67870.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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