COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 10,413 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 8,722 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 572 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The time span covered by the series stretches from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at some summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions registered a minimum of 121 contracts on 10 September 2013; they hit a peak of 25,165 on 15 February 2022; they had a mean of 7,364.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 10514.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 8722.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 10413.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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