COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 256 contracts on 27 January 2026, as on 20 January.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 574 observations. The series covers the period stretching from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 655 contracts; they hit a peak of 16,992 on 18 March 2025; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 26 December 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 256.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 256.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 256.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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