COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 9,902 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 9,028 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 572 data points in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time period stretching from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 4,955 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 12,521 on 22 February 2022; they reached their lowest level of 323 on 2 October 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 10190.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 9028.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 9902.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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