COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 129 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 204 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 609 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the span of time extending from May 2012 to September 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 149 contracts; they reached their highest level of 1,759 on 31 December 2018; they reached their minimum of 0 on 29 March 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 53.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 204.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 129.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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