COT reports: Long positions held by money managers 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 money managers in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 11,898 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 10,898 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 572 data points in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The time range covered by the series is from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions hit a trough of 0 contracts on 29 December 2015; they peaked at 11,898 on 13 January 2026; they had a mean of 1,784.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 10801.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 10898.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 11898.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by money managers 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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