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Corn
Corn (ZC)

Today's Snapshot

The Dec '26 Corn contract's settlement price increased from 460'0 Wednesday to 462'0 Thursday. It saw OI drop from 786.4k to 785.3k and has now fallen in four of the past five days.

Implied volatility for the Dec '26 option expiry inched up from 19.69% to 19.81%, which is the third time in the last four days that it has risen. The option strike with the most opened positions happened to be right next to the strike with the most closed positions. The 495'0 strike saw 558 contracts opened on volume of 845. Meanwhile, OI for the 500'0 strike decreased from 60,226 to 59,988 on volume of 1,193.

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SETTLEMENT PRICE 08/06/26

462'0

DAILY CHANGE

0.43%

ZCZ6

DAILY LOW

457'2

DAILY HIGH

463'0

ZCZ6

LAST YEAR VALUE

401'2

YEAR OVER YEAR CHANGE

15.14%

ZCZ5

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