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 1,078 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 1,068 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 609 records in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The time span covered by the series stretches from May 2012 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded their highest level of 20,775 contracts on 30 December 2014; they reached their minimum of 0 on 31 March 2020; they had an average value of 5,898.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 1027.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 1068.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 1078.0 |
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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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