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." were 2,223 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 2,261 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 607 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time span going from May 2012 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached their lowest level of 99 contracts on 3 May 2022; they attained a maximum of 15,028 on 26 May 2015; they averaged 4,286.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 2,039.00 |
| 2026-09-08 | 2,261.00 |
| 2026-09-15 | 2,223.00 |
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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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