COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 158,500 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to 155,604 on 13 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,024 observations in total. The time span covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at some simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached a trough of 149,056 contracts on 9 December 2025; they reached their maximum of 293,948 on 7 November 2006; they had an average value of 206,238.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 154655.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 155604.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 158500.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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