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." were 40,250 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 39,694 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series shown in the chart, there are 590 records in total. The series covers the time span stretching from May 2012 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 20,933 contracts; they reached a minimum of 8,736 on 12 February 2013; they peaked at 42,746 on 28 April 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 38384.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 39694.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 40250.0 |
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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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