COT reports: Short positions held by all 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 all reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 38,447 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 37,339 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 574 data points in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The time span covered by the series extends from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 20,459 contracts; they reached a trough of 8,736 on 12 February 2013; they achieved a maximum of 41,325 on 18 March 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 35353.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 37339.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 38447.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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