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." were 706 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 1,011 on 24 March.
Sample. This weekly time series has 583 data points. The time span covered by the series goes from May 2012 to March 2026.
History. Here are some statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had an average value of 6,106 contracts; they hit a maximum of 20,775 on 30 December 2014; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 31 March 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 906.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 1011.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 706.0 |
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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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