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 19,605 contracts on 17 February 2026, versus 16,604 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 1,028 records overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The time span covered by the series goes from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics computed on the whole sample: positions hit a trough of 0 contracts on 15 April 2008; they recorded their maximum of 95,591 on 7 June 2011; they averaged 21,976.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 14856.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 16604.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 19605.0 |
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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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