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" were 242,894 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 235,193 on 8 September.
Sample. The weekly time series displayed in the graph has a total of 1,058 data points. The time period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of 29,130 contracts on 25 August 2009; they reached their maximum of 411,111 on 11 February 2025; they averaged 134,745.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 235,318 |
| 2026-09-08 | 235,193 |
| 2026-09-15 | 242,894 |
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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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