COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 256 contracts on 13 January 2026, as on 6 January.
Sample. There are 572 records in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The series covers the period going from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 656 contracts; they reached their highest level of 16,992 on 18 March 2025; they reached their minimum of 0 on 29 October 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 16.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 256.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 256.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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