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 39,746 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 43,683 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 observations overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Check out some statistics calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 22,092 contracts; they hit a minimum of 0 on 15 April 2008; they achieved a maximum of 95,591 on 7 June 2011.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 44627.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 43683.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 39746.0 |
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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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