COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 102,464 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 95,045 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 1,058 data points in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 95,455 contracts; they hit a maximum of 216,866 on 29 July 2025; they recorded a minimum of 27,592 on 13 September 2011.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 94,993.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 95,045.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 102,464 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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