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" stood at 75,574 contracts on 20 January 2026, versus 68,590 on 13 January.
Sample. This weekly series has a total of 1,024 records. The series covers the time span extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a minimum of 25,905 contracts on 7 April 2009; they achieved a maximum of 173,322 on 15 October 2013; they had an average value of 66,723.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 65761.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 68590.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 75574.0 |
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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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