COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 22,834 contracts on 16 June 2026, versus 21,699 on 9 June.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,045 observations. The series covers the period stretching from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions peaked at 95,591 contracts on 7 June 2011; they registered a minimum of 0 on 15 April 2008; they had an average value of 22,109.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 28114.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 21699.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 22834.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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