COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 247 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 296 on 24 March.
Sample. The weekly time series plotted above has 583 records in total. The time range covered by the series is from May 2012 to March 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some statistics computed on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 2,899 contracts; they hit a trough of 0 on 26 December 2017; they achieved a maximum of 20,985 on 15 February 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 248.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 296.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 247.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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