COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 1,509,286 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to 1,457,782 on 13 January.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,024 data points. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their lowest level of 568,951 contracts on 3 March 2009; they hit a maximum of 1,860,109 on 18 February 2025; they had a mean value of 1,184,813.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 1383073.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 1457782.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 1509286.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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