COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 1,112 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 1,050 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 572 observations in total. The time period covered by the series goes from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a maximum of 20,985 contracts on 15 February 2022; they reached a trough of 0 on 26 November 2013; they had a mean of 2,942.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 1097.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 1050.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 1112.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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