COT reports: Net long 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), net long positions held by swap dealers in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 252,510 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to 247,699 on 13 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series shown in the graph has 1,024 observations overall. The span of time covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 251,274 contracts; they hit a maximum of 412,591 on 10 August 2010; they reached their lowest level of 120,158 on 10 September 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 235938.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 247699.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 252510.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long 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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