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 156,966 contracts on 20 January 2026, versus 145,768 on 13 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,024 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 93,203 contracts; they registered a minimum of 27,592 on 13 September 2011; they hit a peak of 216,866 on 29 July 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 119677.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 145768.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 156966.0 |
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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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