COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 1,566,741 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 1,525,626 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 1,025 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The series covers the time span extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 1,245,305 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 637,981 on 3 March 2009; they hit a peak of 1,951,559 on 18 February 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 1473282.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 1525626.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 1566741.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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