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 192,950 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 199,514 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 1,058 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The time span covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 205,732 contracts; they reached a maximum of 293,948 on 7 November 2006; they reached a trough of 149,056 on 9 December 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 190,875 |
| 2026-09-08 | 199,514 |
| 2026-09-15 | 192,950 |
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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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