COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by other reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 78,754 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 75,574 on 20 January.
Sample. The weekly time series plotted above has 1,025 records. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions averaged 66,734 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 25,905 on 7 April 2009; they reached their highest level of 173,322 on 15 October 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 68590.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 75574.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 78754.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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