COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 1,525,626 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to 1,473,282 on 13 January.
Sample. There are 1,024 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a minimum of 637,981 contracts on 3 March 2009; they recorded their maximum of 1,951,559 on 18 February 2025; they averaged 1,244,991.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 1401332.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 1473282.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 1525626.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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