COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 1,303 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 1,493 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 572 observations overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at a few simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached a maximum of 20,775 contracts on 30 December 2014; they reached a minimum of 0 on 31 March 2020; they had a mean of 6,197.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 1694.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 1493.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 1303.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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