2. Speculative Investors Raise Net-Long Positions in Corn, Soft-Red Winter Wheat Money managers increased their net-long positions, or bets on higher prices, in corn while reducing their bullish outlook on soybeans last week, according to the Commodity Future Trading Commission. Investors were net-long by 328,208 corn futures contracts as of Jan. 5, the CFTC said in a report. That’s up from the 309,163 net-long positions held a week earlier. In soybeans, speculators held a net-long position of 159,446 futures contracts, down from 179,606 contracts a week earlier, the agency said. That’s the smallest bullish position for soybeans since the beginning of September. Despite the decline in soybeans’ net-long position, investors are still quite bullish on the big three agricultural commodities due to dry weather and shipping concerns in Argentina.