COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in corn futures of the kind "CORN - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 13,305 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to 12,777 on 13 January.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,024 records in total. The series covers the span of time extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions peaked at 95,591 contracts on 7 June 2011; they reached their lowest level of 0 on 15 April 2008; they averaged 21,999.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 16846.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 12777.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 13305.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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