COT reports: Long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 1,539 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 1,122 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 572 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 4,396 contracts; they achieved a maximum of 15,028 on 26 May 2015; they reached a trough of 99 on 3 May 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 2051.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 1122.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 1539.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other 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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