COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 52,417 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to 53,101 on 13 January.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,024 data points overall. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 34,282 contracts; they hit a trough of 4,397 on 24 December 2007; they hit a maximum of 113,775 on 5 June 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 41717.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 53101.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 52417.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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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