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 913 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 944 on 11 August.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 603 data points in total. The series covers the time span going from May 2012 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 2,825 contracts; they hit a peak of 20,985 on 15 February 2022; they reached a trough of 0 on 26 December 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 1120.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 944.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 913.0 |
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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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