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." were 868 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 982 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 577 records overall. The time range covered by the series stretches from May 2012 to February 2026.
History. Check out some statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded their maximum of 20,985 contracts on 15 February 2022; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 26 December 2017; they averaged 2,926.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 976.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 982.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 868.0 |
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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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