COT reports: Long positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 564 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 483 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 572 records overall in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The time period covered by the series is from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their highest level of 845 contracts on 31 December 2018; they registered a minimum of 0 on 26 July 2016; they had a mean of 277.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 383.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 483.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 564.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by non-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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