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 35,353 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 31,367 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 572 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time span stretching from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Check out some summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions hit a minimum of 8,736 contracts on 12 February 2013; they hit a maximum of 41,325 on 18 March 2025; they had a mean value of 20,398.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 36008.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 31367.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 35353.0 |
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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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