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 32,532 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 30,870 on 10 February.
Sample. In the weekly time series presented in the plot, there are 577 observations. The series covers the time range going from May 2012 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions hit a peak of 34,482 contracts on 27 January 2026; they recorded a bottom of 71 on 16 September 2014; they were equal on average to 9,033.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 30208.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 30870.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 32532.0 |
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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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