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." were 39,145 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 37,758 on 9 June.
Sample. There are 594 records in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time period stretching from May 2012 to June 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged 9,824 contracts; they reached a minimum of 71 on 16 September 2014; they attained a maximum of 40,522 on 28 April 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 34969.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 37758.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 39145.0 |
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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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