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 43,149 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 41,436 on 9 June.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 594 observations. The period covered by the series goes from May 2012 to June 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their maximum of 43,149 contracts on 16 June 2026; they hit a minimum of 8,736 on 12 February 2013; they had a mean of 21,070.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 38302.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 41436.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 43149.0 |
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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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