COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 1,857,317 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 1,854,505 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 records in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The time period covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their minimum of 748,252 contracts on 3 March 2009; they recorded their highest level of 2,071,614 on 18 February 2025; they were equal on average to 1,404,654.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 1843824.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 1854505.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 1857317.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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