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 36,095 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 34,598 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 607 observations overall in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the span of time going from May 2012 to September 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 10,381 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 40,598 on 23 June 2026; they reached a minimum of 71 on 16 September 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 33,758.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 34,598.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 36,095.0 |
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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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