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 34,482 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 33,370 on 20 January.
Sample. This weekly series has 574 data points in total. The time span covered by the series extends from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached a trough of 71 contracts on 16 September 2014; they hit a maximum of 34,482 on 27 January 2026; they had an average value of 8,917.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 31449.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 33370.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 34482.0 |
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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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