COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 69,278 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 76,575 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 1,058 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their maximum of 530,000 contracts on 23 April 2019; they hit a minimum of 6,714 on 31 July 2012; they had a mean of 165,663.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 66,853.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 76,575.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 69,278.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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