COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in steel futures: STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Steel 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 all reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 36,202 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 34,274 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 577 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time range going from May 2012 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached a maximum of 41,325 contracts on 18 March 2025; they recorded a minimum of 8,736 on 12 February 2013; they had an average value of 20,534.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 33673.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 34274.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 36202.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders in steel 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: STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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