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 42,260 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 42,603 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 609 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The time period covered by the series stretches from May 2012 to September 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 21,573 contracts; they reached a minimum of 8,736 on 12 February 2013; they reached a maximum of 45,604 on 23 June 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 40971.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 42603.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 42260.0 |
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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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