COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 34,985 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 31,029 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 572 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time span extending from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached a minimum of 8,748 contracts on 12 February 2013; they reached their highest level of 41,132 on 18 March 2025; they were equal on average to 20,272.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 35824.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 31029.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 34985.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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