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." stood at 40,971 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 38,750 on 8 September.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 607 records in total. The span of time covered by the series is from May 2012 to September 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 21,504 contracts; they reached their minimum of 8,736 on 12 February 2013; they hit a peak of 45,604 on 23 June 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 38,718.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 38,750.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 40,971.0 |
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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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