COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 252,997 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to 222,495 on 13 January.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,024 observations. The span of time covered by the series extends from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached a maximum of 411,111 contracts on 11 February 2025; they reached a trough of 29,130 on 25 August 2009; they had a mean of 130,807.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 226241.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 222495.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 252997.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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