COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 31,449 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 27,309 on 6 January.
Sample. This weekly series has 572 records. The series covers the time span stretching from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at some statistics computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 8,830 contracts; they reached their minimum of 71 on 16 September 2014; they peaked at 31,449 on 13 January 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 30933.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 27309.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 31449.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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