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" stood at 64,728 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 62,121 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had an average value of 66,747 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 25,905 on 7 April 2009; they hit a maximum of 173,322 on 15 October 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 61855.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 62121.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 64728.0 |
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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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