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" were 23,529 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 24,229 on 11 August.
Sample. The weekly series plotted above has 1,054 data points in total. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 22,110 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 0 on 15 April 2008; they hit a maximum of 95,591 on 7 June 2011.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 21775.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 24229.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 23529.0 |
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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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