COT reports: Long positions held by money managers 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 money managers in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 212,897 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 209,697 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 1,025 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions reached a maximum of 444,920 contracts on 4 February 2025; they recorded a bottom of 96,989 on 2 December 2008; they had a mean of 237,574.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 202570.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 209697.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 212897.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by money managers 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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