COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers 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), net long positions held by money managers in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 10,786 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 9,848 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 572 records. The time span covered by the series is from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of -1,158 contracts; they peaked at 10,786 on 13 January 2026; they hit a trough of -20,985 on 15 February 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 9704.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 9848.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 10786.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by money managers 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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