COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 61,855 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 64,838 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,058 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the span of time extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 66,753 contracts; they reached their minimum of 25,905 on 7 April 2009; they reached a maximum of 173,322 on 15 October 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 61,703.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 64,838.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 61,855.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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