COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 1,013 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 819 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 590 records in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the span of time going from May 2012 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 6,042 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 0 on 31 March 2020; they reached their maximum of 20,775 on 30 December 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 721.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 819.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 1013.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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