COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 38,560 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 35,997 on 11 August.
Sample. The weekly time series plotted above has 603 observations in total. The time span covered by the series is from May 2012 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 10,213 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 40,598 on 23 June 2026; they hit a trough of 71 on 16 September 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 34330.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 35997.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 38560.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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