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 74,109 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 66,472 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 observations overall in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached a trough of 25,905 contracts on 7 April 2009; they hit a peak of 173,322 on 15 October 2013; they had an average value of 66,777.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 73086.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 66472.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 74109.0 |
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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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