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 305,564 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to 293,228 on 13 January.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,024 records overall. The series covers the period going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions averaged 164,949 contracts; they hit a trough of 6,714 on 31 July 2012; they recorded a maximum of 530,000 on 23 April 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 237849.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 293228.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 305564.0 |
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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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