COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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), compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 179,838 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 156,966 on 20 January.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the figure has a total of 1,025 records. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached their lowest level of 27,592 contracts on 13 September 2011; they peaked at 216,866 on 29 July 2025; they had an average value of 93,287.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 145768.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 156966.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 179838.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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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